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Springhaven

CHAPTER XIV
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I want to show you something." "What crotchet is in his too active brain now ?" the elder and stronger man asked himself, as he found himself hooked by the right arm, and led down a track through the trees scarcely known to himself, and quite out of sight from the village.

"Why, this is not the way to the beach! However, it is never any good to oppose him.

He gets his own way so because of his fame.

Or perhaps that's the way he got his fame.

But to show me about over my own land! But let him go on, let him go on." "You are wondering, I dare say, what I am about," cried Nelson, stopping suddenly, and fixing his sound eye--which was wonderfully keen, though he was always in a fright about it--upon the large and peaceful blinkers of his ancient commander; "but now I shall be able to convince you, though I am not a land-surveyor, nor even a general of land-forces.


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