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Evan Harrington

CHAPTER XXXII
19/30

Next day I went to these Messrs.Grist.They proposed the membership for Fallow field, five hundred a year, and the loan of a curricle, on condition.

It 's singular, Harrington; before anybody knew of the condition I didn't care about it a bit.

It seemed to me childish.

Who would think of minding wearing a tin plate?
But now!--the sufferings of Orestes--what are they to mine?
He wasn't tied to his Furies.

They did hover a little above him; but as for me, I'm scorched; and I mustn't say where: my mouth is locked; the social laws which forbid the employment of obsolete words arrest my exclamations of despair.


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