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Evan Harrington

CHAPTER VI
12/22

I won't wish, for your sake, that we changed places.

You would have to walk fifty miles to be in time for your father's funeral.

Good night.' 'You are it to look at!' was the postillion's comment, seeing my gentleman depart with great strides.

He did not speak offensively; rather, it seemed, to appease his conscience for the original mistake he had committed, for subsequently came, 'My oath on it, I don't get took in again by a squash hat in a hurry!' Unaware of the ban he had, by a sixpenny stamp, put upon an unoffending class, Evan went ahead, hearing the wheels of the chariot still dragging the road in his rear.

The postillion was in a dissatisfied state of mind.


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