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The Absentee

CHAPTER XVII
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So we part here, and depend upon it you're better without me--that's all my comfort, or my heart would break.

The carriage is waiting this long time, and this young lover's itching to be off.

God bless you both!--that's my last word.' They called in Red Lion Square, punctual to the moment, on old Mr.
Reynolds, but his window-shutters were shut; he had been seized in the night with a violent fit of the gout, which, as he said, held him fast by the leg.

'But here,' said he, giving Lord Colambre a letter, 'here's what will do your business without me.

Take this written acknowledgment I have penned for you, and give my grand-daughter her father's letter to read--it would touch a heart of stone--touched mine--wish I could drag the mother back out of her grave, to do her justice--all one now.


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