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Our Friend the Charlatan

CHAPTER VII
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How does one get to Hollingford?
What are the trains ?" "If you leave Euston by the newspaper train to-morrow morning," said Dyce, gravely, "you may be just in time to hear the declaration of the poll .-- Meanwhile," he added, "suppose we think for a moment of the trifling fact that my income is nothing a year.

How does that affect my chances in a political career, I wonder ?" Mrs.Woolstan's countenance fell.
"Oh--but--it's impossible for that to stand in your way.

You said yourself that you didn't seriously trouble about it.

Of course you will get an income--somehow.

Men who go in for public life always do--don't they ?" She spoke timidly, with downcast eyes, a smile hovering about her lips.
Dyce did not look at her.


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