[The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Henry Kingsley]@TWC D-Link bookThe Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn CHAPTER XXV 10/23
Again, I am very fond of my son Jim, and my son Jim is very fond of your son Sam, and is always coming here after him when he ought to be at home.
So I think I shall see more of him when we are ten miles apart than when we are fifty.
And, once more, my daughter Alice, now completing her education in Sydney, comes home to keep house for me in a few months, and I wish her to have the advantage of the society of the lady whom I honour and respect above all others.
So I have bought Garoopna." "If that courtly bow is intended for me, my dear Captain," said Mrs. Buckley, "as I cannot but think it is, believe me that your daughter shall be as my daughter." "Teach her to be in some slight degree like yourself, Mrs.Buckley," said the Captain, "and you will put me under obligations which I can never repay." "Altogether, wife," said the Major, "it is the most glorious arrangement that ever was come to.
Let us take a glass of sherry all round on it.
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