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The Refugees

CHAPTER XXIV
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They've been good enough for better men than him.

You give me the French for 'no philandering,' and I'll bring him up with a round turn when he drifts." "It's a pity we left so quick or they might have been married before we started.

She's a good girl, Ephraim, and he is a fine man, for all that their ways are not the same as ours.

They don't seem to take life so hard as we, and maybe they get more pleasure out of it." "I never heard tell that we were put here to get pleasure out of it," said the old Puritan, shaking his head.

"The valley of the shadow of death don't seem to me to be the kind o' name one would give to a play-ground.


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