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The Fortunate Youth

CHAPTER XIII
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But I likes to listen to him.

Gorbli--bless me, it's a real bean feast--that's what it is.

He talks straight from the shoulder, he does, just as you talked to-night.

Lets 'em 'ave it bing-bang in the eye.

Don't he, Jane ?" "Bill means," she explained, with the shadow of a smile, for Paul's benefit, "that Mr.Finn is an eloquent preacher." "D'yer suppose he didn't understand what I meant ?" he exclaimed, setting down the beer glass which he was about to raise to his lips.
"Him, what I discovered reading Sir Walter Scott with the cover off when he was a nipper with no clothes on?
You understood, sonny." "Of course I did." He laughed gaily and turned to his host, who had suffered Barney Bill's queer eulogy with melancholy indulgence.


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