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A Final Reckoning

CHAPTER 7: Gratitude
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"I owe Frances' life to him, and there is nothing I wouldn't do for him.

The question is, what?
One does not like to offer money to a man, for such a service as this." "No," Mr.Wilson agreed, "especially in his case.

The young fellow appears to me very much above his condition.

Your daughter first pointed it out to me, and I have since chatted with him several times, and find him a very superior young fellow.

Certainly his education has been very different from that of most men in his condition of life, and I should have taken him for a gentleman, who had got into some scrape and run away, had it not been that he seems to have been regularly apprenticed to his trade.


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