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The Magnificent Ambersons

CHAPTER II
10/16

"Pull down your vest, wipe off your chin--an' go to hell!" Such precocity is less unusual, even in children of the Rich, than most grown people imagine.

However, it was a new experience for the Reverend Malloch Smith, and left him in a state of excitement.

He at once wrote a note to Georgie's mother, describing the crime according to his nephew's testimony; and the note reached Mrs.Minafer before Georgie did.

When he got home she read it to him sorrowfully.
Dear Madam: Your son has caused a painful distress in my household.

He made an unprovoked attack upon a little nephew of mine who is visiting in my household, insulted him by calling him vicious names and falsehoods, stating that ladies of his family were in jail.


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