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Evan Harrington

CHAPTER I
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'First, the young chap's to be sent into the Navy; then it's the Army; then he's to be a judge, and sit on criminals; then he goes out to his sister in Portugal; and now there's nothing but a tailor open to him, as I see, if we're to get our money.' 'Ah! and he hasn't got too much spirit to work to pay his father's debts,' added Barnes.

'There's a business there to make any man's fortune-properly directed, I say.

But, I suppose, like father like son, he'll becoming the Marquis, too.

He went to a gentleman's school, and he's had foreign training.

I don't know what to think about it.


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