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With Kitchener in the Soudan

CHAPTER 1: Disinherited
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I will go and get them, at once.

We sha'n't have to depend upon them as our main staple, in future; for fruit is dirt cheap, out there, and one does not want much meat.

We shall be able to live like princes, on two pounds ten a week; and besides, this appointment may lead to something better, and we may consider that there is a future before us.
"We are to sail on Thursday.

Look! Here are fifteen golden sovereigns.
That is for my outfit, and we can begin with luxuries, at once.

We shall not want much outfit: half a dozen suits of white drill for myself, and some gowns for you." "Nonsense, Gregory! I sha'n't want anything.


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