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St. Ives

CHAPTER XII--I FOLLOW A COVERED CART NEARLY TO MY DESTINATION
19/22

'It shows you are a bold fellow, who may be trusted to forget the business when it comes to the point.

There is nothing against you in the little scrimmage, unless that your courage is greater than your strength.

You are not so young as you once were, that is all.' 'And I beg of you, sir, don't betray me to the Vis-count,' he pleaded.
'I'll not deny but what my 'eart failed me a trifle; but it was only a word, sir, what anybody might have said in the 'eat of the moment, and over with it.' 'Certainly,' said I.

'That is quite my own opinion.' 'The way I came to be anxious about the Vis-count,' he continued, 'is that I believe he might be induced to form an 'asty judgment.

And the business, in a pecuniary point of view, is all that I could ask; only trying, sir--very trying.


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