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The Lighted Way

CHAPTER XI
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"I think I ought to have left you where you were.

I am not at all sure that you would not have been happier.

You are a very nice boy, Mr.Arnold Chetwode, much too good for that stuffy little office in Tooley Street, but I do not know whether it is really for your good if one is inclined to try and help you to escape.

If you saw another man holding a position you wanted yourself, would you throw him out, if you could, by sheer force, or would you think of your laws and your morals ?" "It depends a little upon how much I wanted it," he confessed.
She laughed.
"Ah! I see, then, that there are hopes of you," she admitted.

"You should read the reign of Queen Elizabeth if you would know what Englishmen should be like.


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