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Evan Harrington

CHAPTER VII
17/31

I met a fellow in a gig about ten miles out of Fallow field, and he gave me a lift to Flatsham.

I just reached Lymport in time, thank Heaven! I wouldn't have missed that! By the way, I've satisfied these men.' 'Oh!' said Mrs.Mel.
'They wanted--one or two of them--what a penance it is to have to sit among those people an hour!--they wanted to ask me about the business, but I silenced them.

I told them to meet me here this day week.' Mrs.Mel again said 'Oh!' and, pushing into one of the upper rooms, 'Here's your bedroom, Van, just as you left it.' 'Ah, so it is,' muttered Evan, eyeing a print.

'The Douglas and the Percy: "he took the dead man by the hand." What an age it seems since I last saw that.

There's Sir Hugh Montgomery on horseback--he hasn't moved.


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