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The Adventures of Harry Richmond

CHAPTER I
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That star of my birth and most disastrous fortunes should plead on my behalf to you; to my wife at least it will.' 'You've come to see my daughter Marian, have you ?' 'My wife, sir.' 'You don't cross my threshold while I live.' 'You compel her to come out to me ?' 'She stays where she is, poor wretch, till the grave takes her.

You've done your worst; be off.' 'Mr.Beltham, I am not to be restrained from the sight of my wife.' 'Scamp!' 'By no scurrilous epithets from a man I am bound to respect will I be deterred or exasperated.' 'Damned scamp, I say!' The squire having exploded his wrath gave it free way.

'I've stopped my tongue all this while before a scoundrel 'd corkscrew the best-bottled temper right or left, go where you will one end o' the world to the other, by God! And here 's a scoundrel stinks of villany, and I've proclaimed him 'ware my gates as a common trespasser, and deserves hanging if ever rook did nailed hard and fast to my barn doors! comes here for my daughter, when he got her by stealing her, scenting his carcase, and talking 'bout his birth, singing what not sort o' foreign mewin' stuff, and she found him out a liar and a beast, by God! And she turned home.

My doors are open to my flesh and blood.

And here she halts, I say, 'gainst the law, if the law's against me.


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