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The Adventures of Harry Richmond

CHAPTER V
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His sleeve happened to be unbuttoned, and there, on his arm, was a mark of the cane.
'Look!' I said to Julia.

But she looked at me.
'Richie, are you ill ?' She assured me I was very pale, and I felt her trembling excessively, and her parasol was covering us.
'Here, Roy, Temple,' we heard Heriot call; 'here, come here and bowl to me.' I went and bowled till I thought my head was flying after the ball and getting knocks, it swam and throbbed so horribly.
Temple related that I fell, and was carried all the way from the cricket-field home by Heriot, who would not give me up to the usher.

I was in Julia's charge three days.

Every time I spoke of her father and Heriot, she cried, 'Oh, hush!' and had tears on her eyelids.

When I was quite strong again, I made her hear me out.


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