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Verner’s Pride

CHAPTER XXI
17/19

Roy turned them off the brick-yard, and they threaten they'll do it out of revenge.
If you would just look to things and keep Roy quiet, nothing of this would happen." Lionel knew that.
"Mrs.Verner," he said, "were you the owner of Verner's Pride, I would spare no pains to help you.

But I cannot act for Frederick Massingbird." "What has Fred done to you ?" she asked quickly.
"That is not the question--he has done nothing," answered Lionel, speaking more rapidly still.

"My management would--if I know anything of him--be essentially different from your son's; different from what he would approve.

Neither would I take authority upon myself only to have it displaced upon his return.

Have Roy before you, Mrs.Verner, and caution him." "It does no good.


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