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Doctor Thorne

CHAPTER XIX
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I shall walk on, and they may catch me.

I may be wrong; but it seems to me that a man insults me when he asks me to dine with him and never speaks to me.

I don't care if he be ten times Duke of Omnium; he can't be more than a gentleman, and as such I am his equal." And then, having thus given vent to his feelings in somewhat high-flown language, he walked forth and trudged away along the road towards Courcy.
Frank Gresham had been born and bred a Conservative, whereas the Duke of Omnium was well known as a consistent Whig.

There is no one so devoutly resolved to admit of no superior as your Conservative, born and bred, no one so inclined to high domestic despotism as your thoroughgoing consistent old Whig.
When he had proceeded about six miles, Frank was picked up by his friends; but even then his anger had hardly cooled.
"Was the duke as civil as ever when you took your leave of him ?" said he to his cousin George, as he took his seat on the drag.
"The juke was jeuced jude wine--lem me tell you that, old fella," hiccupped out the Honourable George, as he touched up the leader under the flank..


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