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The Adventures of Harry Richmond

CHAPTER VI
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The feast was worth fifty, but to haggle about prices showed the sneak.

He begged us to put by a taste for him; he was groaned out of hearing.

The fifteen looked so wretched when they saw themselves divided from us that I gave them a shilling a-piece to console them.

They took their instructions from Saddlebank as to how they were to surround Catman, and make him fancy us to be all in his neighbourhood; and then we shook hands, they requesting us feebly to drink their healths, and we saying, ay, that we would.
Temple was in distress of spirits because of his having been ignominiously bought off.

Saddlebank, however, put on such a pace that no one had leisure for melancholy.


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