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Beauchamp’s Career

CHAPTER I
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These traits of his were regarded as characteristics hopeful rather than the reverse; none of his friends and relatives foresaw danger in them.

He was a capital boy for his elders to trot out and banter.
Mrs.Rosamund Culling usually went to his room to see him and doat on him before he started on his rounds of an evening.

She suspected that his necessary attention to his toilet would barely have allowed him time to finish his copy of the letter.

Certain phrases had bothered him.
The thrice recurrence of 'ma patrie' jarred on his ear.

'Sentiments' afflicted his acute sense of the declamatory twice.


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