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Reginald Cruden

CHAPTER EIGHT
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Come, now, give me a lower-case `x.'" Reginald hesitated a moment.

Suppose Mr Durfy had it in him to be as good as his word.

What then about young Gedge?
He picked up an "x" sullenly, and tossed it at the overseer's feet.
"That's not giving it to me," said the latter, with a sneer of triumph already on his face.

"Pick it up directly, do you hear?
and give it to me." Reginald stood and glared first at Mr Durfy, then at the type.
Yesterday he would have defiantly told him to pick it up himself, caring little what the cost might be.

But things had changed since then.
Humiliating as it was to own it, he could not afford to be turned off.
His pride could not afford it, his care for young Gedge could not afford it, the slender family purse could not afford it.


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