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Evan Harrington

CHAPTER X
12/19

Next to the interposition of the Gods, we pray for human fellowship when we are in a mess.

So he mumbled politely, dropped with him a little to the rear, and they all stepped out to the crack of the waggoner's whip.
'Rather a slow pace,' said Evan, feeling bound to converse.
'Six hours on the downs makes it extremely suitable to me,' rejoined the stranger.
'You lost your way ?' 'I did, sir.

Yes; one does not court those desolate regions wittingly.
I am for life and society.

The embraces of Diana do not agree with my constitution.

If classics there be who differ from me, I beg them to take six hours on the downs alone with the moon, and the last prospect of bread and cheese, and a chaste bed, seemingly utterly extinguished.


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