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We and the World, Part II. (of II.)

CHAPTER XIV
11/18

Ye'll be apt to give it away, maybe; let me use a small pin.

Did the master not find ye any gloves?
Now av the squire saw ye, its a proud man he'd be!_ Will I give the young gentleman one of your hats, sorr ?" "Yes, of course.

Be quick! So there you are at last, you young puppy.
Bless me! how like the squire you are." The squire must have been amazingly handsome, I thought, as I gazed admiringly at my comrade.

Our staring made him shy, and as he blushed and touched up the stephanotis in his buttonhole, the engineer changed the subject by saying, "Talking of the squire, is it true, Dennis, what Jack tells me about the twenty pounds?
Did he really forget to put it in ?" "As true as gospel," said Dennis, and taking up the tails of his coat he waltzed round the room to the tune of "They say some disaster Befell the paymaster, On my conscience, I think that the money's not there!" I stood out on the verandah to see them off, Dennis singing and chaffing and chattering to the last.

He waved his hat to me as his friend gathered the reins, a groom sprang up behind, and they were whirled away.


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