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The Virginians

CHAPTER X
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Indeed, indeed, I ought." And he prayed for this bit of promotion.
"Again the head of the house must take the lead, my dear," George said, with a superb air.

"If I fall, my Harry will avenge me.

But I must fight George Washington, Hal: and 'tis best I should; for, indeed, I hate him the worst.

Was it not he who counselled my mother to order that wretch, Ward, to lay hands on me ?" "Ah, George," interposed the more pacable younger brother, "you ought to forget and forgive." "Forgive?
Never, sir, as long as I remember.

You can't order remembrance out of a man's mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.


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