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Evan Harrington

CHAPTER XXXVI
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We met because we were the two extremes.' Sighing, 'What a jolly old inn!' Raikes rolled himself over in the sheets, and gave two or three snug jolts indicative of his determination to be comfortable while he could.
'Do you intend to carry on this folly, Jack ?' 'Say, sacrifice,' was the answer.

'I feel it as much as you possibly could, Mr.Harrington.Hear the facts,' Jack turned round again.

'Why did I consent to this absurdity?
Because of my ambition.

That old fellow, whom I took to be a clerk of Messrs.

Grist, said: "You want to cut a figure in the world--you're armed now." A sort of Fortunatus's joke.


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