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Harry Heathcote of Gangoil

CHAPTER I
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We could only bear it in the veranda by keeping the blinds always wet.

I don't wonder that you were troubled." "That comes from heaven or Providence, or from something that one knows to be unassailable, and therefore one can put up with it.

Even if one gets a sun-stroke one does not complain.

The sun has a right to be there, and is no interloper, like a free-selector.

I can't understand why free-selectors and mosquitoes should have been introduced into the arrangements of the world." "I s'pose the poor must live somewheres, and 'squiters too," said Mrs.Growler, the old maid-servant, as she put a boiled leg of mutton on the table.


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