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The Queen’s Cup

CHAPTER 5
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The fellow I suspect is no friend of mine, and I don't want to know anything about him.

If I were certain of it, I could not meet him without telling him my opinion of him." "You are not likely to meet him here, Squire.

A year ago he happened to be over at Chippenham one market day.

There were a dozen of us there, and I can tell you we gave him such a reception that he mounted his horse and rode straight on again.

If he hadn't, I believe that we should have horsewhipped him through the town.
Three months afterwards his estate was put up for sale, and he has never been down in this part of the country since; not that he was ever here much before.


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