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Verner’s Pride

CHAPTER XV
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He will make more haste for you than he might for one of my servants." "Does he know of the bequest to the Massingbirds ?" "Of course he knows of it.

He made the will.

I have never employed anybody but Matiss since I came into the estate." Mr.Bitterworth, feeling there was little time to be lost, quitted the room without more delay.

He was anxious that Lionel should have his own.
Not so much because he liked and esteemed Lionel, as that he possessed a strong sense of justice within himself.

Lionel heard him leaving the sick-room, and came to him, but Mr.Bitterworth would not stop.
"I cannot wait," he said.


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