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The Debtor

CHAPTER II
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He was a much younger man than Arthur's father, and robust at the time of his death.

He explained to Arthur that he was doing him an incalculable service in purchasing his patrimonial estate, when he announced his decision so to do, after taking several weeks to conceal his alacrity.
"It is not everybodee would take a propertee, with such a condeetion attached, Arthur, boy," he said.

He had at times a touch of the Scotch in his accent.

His father had been straight from the old country when he married the planter's daughter.

"Not everybodee, with such a condeetion," he repeated, and the boy innocently believed him.
He had been used, ever since he was a child and could remember anything, to seeing a good deal of the man.


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