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Verner’s Pride

CHAPTER XXV
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I only gets the fever once in three days now.

Yesterday, sir, I got down to the field, and earned what'll come to eighteen pence.

I did indeed, sir, though you'd not think it, looking at me to-day." "I should not," said Lionel.

"Do you mean to say you went to work in your present state ?" "I didn't seem a bit ill yesterday, sir, except for the weakness.

The fever, it keeps me down all one day, as may be to-day; then the morrow I be quite prostrate with the weakness it leaves; and the third day I be, so to speak, well.


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