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noted similarities in the storylines: "the early, effaceable husband", the "previously-implicated girl of wayward habits" and "the sturdy, slow-witted
Englishman". He found it "curious to watch this story reproducing itself without the author's assent, one imagines, through scenes and times differing
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named Hassan Akbar whom he had earlier betrayed, and is sold into slavery in the
Moroccan interior. His friend, the wealthy Belgian Claude Fournier – who is Warriner's gun-running business partner – asks Miranda to arrange a rescue bid. Reluctantly she agrees, more because Warriner was the father of
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thought it a most readable story, excellently written and well put-together, but rather like a very pleasant dream that one really can't remember in the morning. He noted that the first reviewers had had to confess "there is little to be said about it".
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being arrested for his crimes) leaves for good. Charnock threatens
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