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John Halifax
Gentleman

CHAPTER VI
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Near as we lived to Coltham, I had only been there once in my life; but John Halifax knew the town pretty well, having latterly in addition to his clerkship been employed by my father in going about the neighbourhood buying bark.

I was amused when the coach stopped at an inn, which bore the ominous sign of the "Fleece," to see how well accustomed he seemed to be to the ways of the place.

He deported himself with perfect self-possession; the waiter served him respectfully.

He had evidently taken his position in the world--at least, our little world--he was no longer a boy, but a man.

I was glad to see it; leaving everything in his hands, I lay down where he placed me in the inn parlour, and watched him giving his orders and walking about.


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