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The Three Clerks

CHAPTER XXVI
10/29

And as for you, Alaric, all who know you and love you watch your career with the greatest hope.

We know your ambition, and all look to see you rise in the world.

But in rising, as you will do, you should remember this--that nothing that is wrong can become right because other people do it.' 'Well, Charley,' said the other, 'thank you for the lecture.

I did not certainly expect it from you; but it is not on that account the less welcome.

And now, suppose we go upstairs and dress for Mrs.Val;' and so they went upstairs.
Katie's heart beat high as she got out of the carriage--Mrs.
Val's private carriage had been kept on for the occasion--and saw before and above her on the stairs a crowd of muslin crushing its way on towards the room prepared for dancing.


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