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Barry Lyndon

CHAPTER III
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It was Moses the pawnbroker that peached: I had the news from him myself.' By which I conclude that Mr.
Fitzsimons had been with the new laced frock-coat which he procured from the merchant tailor on the day when the latter first gave me credit.
What was the end of our conversation?
Where was now a home for the descendant of the Barrys?
Home was shut to me by my misfortune in the duel.

I was expelled from Dublin by a persecution occasioned, I must confess, by my own imprudence.

I had no time to wait and choose: no place of refuge to fly to.

Fitzsimons, after his abuse of me, left the room growling, but not hostile; his wife insisted that we should shake hands, and he promised not to molest me.

Indeed, I owed the fellow nothing; and, on the contrary, had his acceptance actually in my pocket for money lost at play.


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