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Alton of Somasco

CHAPTER III
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"The trouble is I know how mean he is," he said.
"Mean ?" said the girl.

"That is niggardly ?" "No," said Harry; "I don't think he's niggardly.

It's another word for low down in this country.

You see he has always had to work hard for a living, and never had time to teach himself the nice little ways you folks have in England.

He's just a big rough rancher who has fought pretty toughly for his own hand, and that's apt to take the gentleness out of a man, and make him what you would call coarse and brutal." The girl seemed to shiver.


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