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Evan Harrington

CHAPTER XXV
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Ferdinand, who had plenty, would not even lend him fifty.

Ferdinand had dared to hint at a debt already unsettled, and he called himself a gentleman! 'You wouldn't speak of money-matters now, would you, Harrington ?' 'I dislike the subject, I confess,' said Evan.
'And so do I' Harry jumped at the perfect similarity between them.

'You can't think how it bothers one to have to talk about it.

You and I are tremendously alike.' Evan might naturally suppose that a subject Harry detested, he would not continue, but for a whole hour Harry turned it over and over with grim glances at Jewry.
'You see,' he wound up, 'I'm in a fix.

I want to help that poor girl, and one or two things--' 'It 's for that you want it ?' cried Evan, brightening to him.


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