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Bressant

CHAPTER XI
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CHAPTER XI.
EVERY LITTLE COUNTS.
Mr.William Reynolds arrived late, perhaps because he delayed too long over the niceties of his toilet.

He was a country young man, fashioned upon a well-worn last.

His occupation for several years past had been to attend to the furnishing and driving of a milk-cart, and, very likely, it was this which had hindered the proper development of his figure.

At all events, he was stoutest where it is generally thought advisable to be lean, and narrow where popular prejudice demands breadth.

His knees were more conspicuous than his legs, and his elbows than his arms.


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