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Lord Kilgobbin

CHAPTER XIV
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It is a matter of great urgency for me to reach Dublin at once.

This unlucky incident has been so represented by the newspapers as to give considerable uneasiness to the Government, and they are even threatened with a discussion on it in the House.

Now, I'd start to-morrow, if I thought I could travel with safety.
You have so impressed me with your skill, that, if I dared, I'd ask you to convoy me up.

Of course I mean as my physician.' 'But I'm not one, nor ever intend to be.' 'You studied, however ?' 'As I have done scores of things.

I know a little bit of criminal law, have done some shipbuilding, rode _haute ecole_ in Cooke's circus, and, after M.
Dumas, I am considered the best amateur macaroni-maker in Europe.' 'And which of these careers do you intend to abide by ?' 'None, not one of them.


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