Chapter 3, “The Third Cheque”
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He had had a warning, a practical moral lesson which had merely arrived, as such things often do, rather after date.
— F. Anstey
What It Means
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About F. Anstey
F. Anstey was the pen-name of Thomas Anstey Guthrie (8 August 1856 – 10 March 1934), an English novelist and journalist.
About F. Anstey
F. Anstey was the pen-name of Thomas Anstey Guthrie (8 August 1856 – 10 March 1934), an English novelist and journalist.
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