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The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn

CHAPTER IV
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Oh, yes, I should certainly get married before I went.

Good night." All this was meant to be as irritating as possible; but as he went out at the door he had the satisfaction to hear James' clear honest laugh mingling with the Vicar's, for, as George had closed the door, the Doctor had said, looking after him-- "Gott in Himmel, that young man has go a skull like a tom-cat." This complimentary observation was lost on Mary, who had left the room with George.

The Vicar looked round for her, and sighed when he missed her.
"Ah!" said he; "I wish he was going instead of you." "So does the new colony, I'll be bound," added the Doctor.
Soon after this the party separated.

When James and the Doctor stood outside the door, the latter demanded, "Where are you going ?" "To Sydney, I believe, Doctor." "Goose.

I mean now." "Home." "No, you ain't," said the Doctor; "you are going to walk up to Hamlyn's with me, and hear me discourse." Accordingly, about eleven o'clock, these two arrived at my house, and sat before the fire till half-past three in the morning; and in that time the Doctor had given us more information about New South Wales than we had been able to gather from ordinary sources in a month..


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