[Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces by Thomas W. Hanshew]@TWC D-Link bookCleek: the Man of the Forty Faces CHAPTER XII 15/18
"My memory is much stimulated by these details, I assure you.
I gather from them that, whatever is administered, Murple did not get quite so much of it as Tolliver, or he, too, would be dead.
Sir Henry"-- he turned again to the baronet--"do you trust everybody else connected with your establishment as much as you trust Logan ?" "Yes.
There's not a servant connected with the hall that hasn't been in my service for years, and all are loyal to me." "May I ask who else is in the house besides the servants ?" "My wife, Lady Wilding, for one; her cousin, Mr.Sharpless, who is on a visit to us, for another; and, for a third, my uncle, the Rev.Ambrose Smeer, the famous revivalist." "Mr.Smeer does not approve of the race track, of course ?" "No, he does not.
He is absurdly 'narrow' on some subjects, and 'sport' of all sorts is one of them.
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