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The Adventures of Harry Richmond

CHAPTER XXII
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Take poor Jorian for an example of what the absence of ambition brings men to.

I treasure Jorian, I hoard the poor fellow, to have him for a lesson to my boy.

Witty and shrewd, and a masterly tactician (I wager he would have won his spurs on the field of battle), you see him now living for one hour of the day--absolutely twenty-three hours of the man's life are chained slaves, beasts of burden, to the four-and-twentieth! So, I repeat, fag at your German.
'Miss Penrhys retires to her native Wales; Jorian and I on to London, to the Continent.

Plinlimmon guard us all! I send you our local newspapers.
That I cut entrechats is false.

It happens to be a thing I could do, and not an Englishman in England except myself; only I did not do it.


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