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CHAPTER V
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'Arry had better keep his place awhile.
I shouldn't wonder if I find work for him myself before long I've got plans, but I shan't talk about them just yet.' He spoke then of the legal duties which fell upon him as next-of-kin, explaining the necessity of finding two sureties on taking out letters of administration.

Mr.Yottle had offered himself for one; the other Richard hoped to find in Mr.Westlake, a leader of the Socialist movement.
'You want us to go into a big house ?' asked Mrs.Mutimer.She seemed to pay little attention to the wider aspects of the change, but to fix on the details she could best understand, those which put her fears in palpable shape.
'I didn't say a big one, but a larger than this.

We're not going to play the do-nothing gentlefolk; but all the same our life won't and can't be what it has been.

There's no choice.

You've worked hard all your life, mother, and it's only fair you should come in for a bit of rest.


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