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/ˈʌ/ noun C2- The fourth semiquaver (sixteenth note) of a beat. · The pianist played a C on the a of four.
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“If I were sole owner we’d shake hands on it now, my dear Dantès, and call it settled; but I have a partner, and you know the Italian proverb—Chi ha compagno ha padrone—‘He who has a partner has a master.’ But the thing is at least half done, as you have one out of two votes.
There’s a providence that watches over the deserving.
Do you mean is he a good comrade?
No, for I think he never liked me since the day when I was silly enough, after a little quarrel we had, to propose to him to stop for ten minutes at the island of Monte Cristo to settle the dispute—a proposition which I was wrong to suggest, and he quite right to refuse.
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