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The Freelands

CHAPTER II
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You've only to look at him." "Ah!" said Stanley suddenly.

"D'you remember him at Father's funeral ?--without his hat, and his head in the clouds.

Fine-lookin' chap, old Tod--pity he's such a child of Nature." Felix said quietly: "If you'd offered him a partnership, Stanley--it would have been the making of him." "Tod in the plough works?
My hat!" Felix smiled.

At sight of that smile, Stanley grew red, and John refilled his pipe.

It is always the devil to have a brother more sarcastic than oneself! "How old are those two ?" John said abruptly.
"Sheila's twenty, Derek nineteen." "I thought the boy was at an agricultural college ?" "Finished." "What's he like ?" "A black-haired, fiery fellow, not a bit like Tod." John muttered: "That's her Celtic blood.


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