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One of Our Conquerors

CHAPTER XIII
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If one has wealth and a desperate wish, he will speak.

All he does, is to make me more charitable to those who give way to him.

I believe in a devil.' 'Horns and tail ?' 'Bait and hook.' 'I haven't wealth, and I wish only for dinner,' Fenellan said.
'You know that Armandine is never two minutes late.

By the way, you haven't wealth--you have me.' 'And I thank God for you!' said Fenellan, acutely reminiscent of his having marked the spiritual adviser of Mrs.Burman, the Rev.Groseman Buttermore, as a man who might be useful to his friend..


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