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Weir of Hermiston

CHAPTER III--IN THE MATTER OF THE HANGING OF DUNCAN JOPP
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"That's all I'm fit for--to fight." "All?
quo' he!" returned the Judge.

"And it would be enough too, if I thought it.

But I'll never trust ye so near the French, you that's so Frenchi-feed." "You do me injustice there, sir," said Archie.

"I am loyal; I will not boast; but any interest I may have ever felt in the French--" "Have ye been so loyal to me ?" interrupted his father.
There came no reply.
"I think not," continued Hermiston.

"And I would send no man to be a servant to the King, God bless him! that has proved such a shauchling son to his own faither.


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