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The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

CHAPTER V
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Your diet is sour bread and cheese-parings.

You work in strings of twenties and thirties.

ARSON is branded on your backs in an enormous A.
Theological works are the sole literary recreation of the well-conducted and deserving.

Consider the fate of this poor fellow, and what an act of vengeance brings him to! Do you know his name ?" "How should I know his name ?" said Richard, with an assumption of innocence painful to see.
Sir Austin remarked that no doubt it would soon be known, and Adrian perceived that he was to quiet his line, marvelling a little at the baronet's blindness to what was so clear.

He would not tell, for that would ruin his influence with Richard; still he wanted some present credit for his discernment and devotion.


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