I can speak to you; it is not like.

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I will tell you what I feel and what I mean to do; and you shall be the judge," he repeated.
"I decline jurisdiction," said Glenalmond, with extreme seriousness.
"But, my dear boy, if it will do you any good to talk, and if it will interest you at all to hear what I may choose to say when I have heard you, I am quite at your command.

Let an old man say it, for once, and not need to blush: I love you like a son." There came a sudden sharp sound in Archie's throat.