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With Wolfe in Canada

CHAPTER 3: The Justice Room
11/31

My first impulse was to pack you off home, and have no more to do with you, but I have thought better of it.

Mean and despicable as your conduct has been, I take some blame to myself, for not having seen that your tutor did his duty by you.
Therefore, I have resolved to give you another chance, but not here.

I could not bear to have a boy, who has proved himself a despicable liar, about me; but I will try and think that this was a first offence, and that the lesson which it has taught you may influence all your future life, and that you may yet grow up an honourable man.
"But you will remember that, henceforth, you are on trial, and that the position in which you will stand by my will, will depend solely and entirely on your own conduct.

If you prove, by that, that this lesson has had its effect, that you deeply repent of your conduct, and are resolved to do your best to be henceforth straight, honourable, and true, you will, at my death, occupy the position I have intended for you.

If not, not one single penny of my money will you get.


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