[Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson]@TWC D-Link bookCome Rack! Come Rope! CHAPTER VIII 16/21
There must be no more fooling this way and that.
I shall pay no fines for you--mark that! If you must stand on your own feet, stand on them....
Now then!" "Do you mean, am I coming to church with you, sir ?" "I mean, who is to pay your fines ?...
Miss Marjorie ?" Robin set his teeth at the sneer. "I have not yet been fined, sir." "Now do you take me for a fool? D'you think they'll let you off? I was speaking--" The old man stopped. "Yes, sir ?" The other wheeled his face on him. "If you will have it," he said, "I was speaking to my two good friends who dined here on Sunday.
I was plain with them and they were plain with me.
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