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The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

CHAPTER XIV
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Names beginning with 'Cl' I prefer.

The 'Cl's' are always gentle and lovely girls you would die for! Don't you think so ?" Richard had never been acquainted with any of them to inspire that emotion.

Indeed these urgent appeals to his fancy in feminine names at five o'clock in the morning slightly surprised him, though he was but half awake to the outer world.

By degrees he perceived that Ralph was changed.

Instead of the lusty boisterous boy, his rival in manly sciences, who spoke straightforwardly and acted up to his speech, here was an abashed and blush-persecuted youth, who sued piteously for a friendly ear wherein to pour the one idea possessing him.


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