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Laddie

CHAPTER XIV
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Much more so than the settling of quarrels that never should have taken place.

Do you think your daughter found the spectacle at all moving ?" "Damn you, sir, what I should do, is to lay this whip across your shoulders!" cried Mr.Pryor.
But if you will believe it, he was laughing again.
"I prefer that you don't," said Laddie, "or on Ranger either.

See how he likes being gentled." Then he straightened and drew a deep breath.
"Mr.Pryor," he said, "as man to man, I have got this to say to you--and you may use your own discretion about repeating it to your daughter: I can offer her six feet of as sound manhood as you can find on God's footstool.

I never in my whole life have had enough impure blood in my body to make even one tiny eruption on my skin.

I never have been ill a day in my life.


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