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Can You Forgive Her?

CHAPTER XVII
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"'Tain't often the Squire's wrong." Here they came to a little double rail and a little quick-set hedge.
A double rail is a nasty fence always if it has been made any way strong, and one which a man with a wife and a family is justified in avoiding.

They mostly can be avoided, having gates; and this could have been avoided.

But Burgo never avoided anything, and went over it beautifully.

The difficulty is to be discreet when the man before one has been indiscreet.

Tom went for the gate, as did Pollock, who knew that he could have no chance at the double rails.


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