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The Argonauts of North Liberty

CHAPTER II
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"He is--" "Because"-- continued Mrs.Blandford in the same measured tone, "if he does not add his own evil company to his advice, it is the best he has ever given yet.

I think he might have taken another day than the Lord's to talk about it, but we must not despise the means nor the hour whence the truth comes.

Father wanted me to take some reasonable moment to prepare you to consider it seriously, and I thought of talking to you about it to-morrow.

He thinks it would be a very judicious plan.

Even Deacon Truesdail--" "Having sold his invoice of damaged sugar kettles for mining purposes, is converted," said Blandford, goaded into momentary testiness by his wife's unexpected acquiescence and a sudden recollection of Demorest's prophecy.


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