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With Wolfe in Canada

CHAPTER 2: The Showman's Grandchild
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I don't know anything about the boy, and should not know him even by sight, but I had an esteem for his father, who was a hard-working man, and, I believe, clever.

He used to attend here whenever any of the servants were ill, and I had intended to do something for the boy.

I am sorry he has turned out so badly.

However, I will have him up here and speak to him.
This sort of thing cannot be permitted." And accordingly, orders were given to the constable.

When, in the evening, Mr.Robertson informed Richard what he had done, the boy flew into a terrible passion, and abused his tutor with a violence of language which shocked and astonished him, and opened his eyes to his own culpability, in allowing him to go on his way unchecked.


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