[The Foreigner by Ralph Connor]@TWC D-Link bookThe Foreigner CHAPTER XIV 26/42
However, as I have said, we will give him a chance." "And meantime ?" enquired French. "Meantime? Oh! I shall stick to my pills and plasters,--we have ten patients in the hospital now,--run the store and the mill, and try to help generally.
If this priest gets at his work and makes good, I promise you I'll not bother him." "And if not ?" enquired French. "If not? Well, then," said Brown, sinking back into his easy, good-natured manner, "you see, I am constitutionally indolent. I would rather he'd move out than I, and so while the colony stays here, it will be much easier for me to stay than to go. And," he added, "I shall get back my school, too." French looked at him admiringly.
Brown's lips had come together in a straight line. "By George! I believe you," exclaimed French, "and I think I see the finish of the Polish gentleman.
Can I help you out ?" "I do not know," said Brown, "but Kalman can.
I want him to do some interpreting for me some of these days.
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