The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a s…

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The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic. ✨ H. G. Wells, Warwick Goble (2015). The War of the Worlds, p.94, Courier Dover Publications
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