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Bred in the Bone

CHAPTER XIX
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Last, but not least, there were the possibilities in connection with the mine.

If he broke altogether with Richard, and turned him out of his house outright, might not his first act be to reveal to Parson Whymper, in revenge, all that he knew about Wheal Danes! "Well, well, you shall stay at Gethin, then, till your check comes, young gentleman," said he, in a tone that was meant to be conciliatory.
"I don't wish to be uncivil to any man, and certainly not to one who has been my guest so long.

But you will keep yourself _to_ yourself, if you please, in the mean time.

The bar parlor will no longer be open to you, until you have proved your right to be there.

And I don't mean to promise any thing certain by that, neither; but what with your fast talking and fine speaking I'm all in a buzz." Honest John Trevethick did not, indeed, know What to think, what to believe, or what to propose to himself for the future.


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