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Red Pottage

CHAPTER XXIX
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He looks good, but what do I know of him except evil?
He looks as if he could be faithful, but how can I trust him ?" Hugh fell into a deep dejection after his narrow escape.

Dr.Brown said it was nervous prostration, and Doll rode into Southminster and returned laden with comic papers.

Who shall say whether the cause was physical or mental?
Hugh had seen death very near for the first time, and the thought of death haunted him.

He had not realized when he drew lots that he was risking the possibility of anything like _that_, such an entire going away, such an awful rending of his being as the short word _death_ now conveyed to him.

He had had no idea it would be like _that_.


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