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The Adventures of Harry Revel

CHAPTER II
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What d'ye think they call it in France when you remember a person in your will ?" I hadn't a notion, and said so.
"Why, 'legs,'" said he.

"And they've got one of mine.

If a man was superstitious, you might almost call it a coincidence, hey ?" This was the longest conversation I ever had with Mr.George.

I have since found that sentiments very like his about the Navy have been uttered by Dr.Samuel Johnson.

But Mr.George spoke them out of his own experience.
Mr.Scougall's bride was the widow of a Plymouth publican who had sold his business and retired upon a small farm across the Hamoaze, near the Cornish village of Anthony.


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