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Now or Never

CHAPTER XVII
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At the bank he procured a hundred dollar note for his small bills, and enclosed it in the letter.
He felt sad about Tom.

The runaway had done so well, had been so industrious, and shown such a tractable spirit, that he had been very much encouraged about him.

But if he meant to be wild again,--for it was plain that the ride was only "the beginning of sorrows,"-- it was well that they should part.
By the afternoon stage our hero proceeded to Gardiner, passing through several smaller towns, which did not promise a very abundant harvest.
His usual success attended him; for wherever he went, people seemed to be pleased with him, as Squire Lee had declared they would be.

His pleasant, honest face was a capital recommendation, and his eloquence seldom failed to achieve the result which eloquence has ever achieved from Demosthenes down to the present day.
Our limits do not permit us to follow him in all his peregrinations from town to town, and from house to house; so we pass over the next fortnight, at the end of which time we find him at Augusta.

He had sold all his books but twenty, and had that day remitted eighty dollars more to Mr.Bayard.


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