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The Claverings

CHAPTER I
11/17

I have been thus open with you because I thought it might serve to make you look at things in a right light.

I trust to your honor as a gentleman to repeat nothing that I have said to you." I am not given to repeat such things as those." "I'm sure you are not.

And I hope you will not misunderstand the spirit in which they have been spoken.

I shall never regret what I have told you now, if it tends to make you perceive that we must both regard our past acquaintance as a romance, which must, from the stern necessity of things, be treated as a dream which we have dreamt, or a poem which we have read." "You can treat it as you please." "God bless you, Harry; and I will always hope for your welfare, and hear of your success with joy.

Will you come up and shoot with them on Thursday ?" "What, with Hugh?
No; Hugh and I do not hit it off together.


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