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In the Year of Jubilee

CHAPTER 8
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That's the long and short of it.' Nancy looked a trifle disconcerted.
'You won't think any worse of me, because I haven't a name of my own ?' 'Why should I?
It isn't your fault.' 'No.

But I'm not the kind of man to knuckle under.

I think myself just as good as anybody else I'll knock the man down that sneers at me; and I won't thank anybody for pitying me; that's the sort of chap I am.
And I'm going to have a big fortune one of these days.

It's down in the books.

I know I shall live to be a rich man, just as well as I know that I'm walking down Dean Street with Miss.


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