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The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn

CHAPTER XXVI
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In fact the whole man was clean and neat, and had a clean-shaved face, and looked respectable, so far as outward appearances were concerned.

The fourth man was the hut-keeper, a wicked-looking old villain, who was baking bread.
Frank looked at the sleepy young man with the parrot, and said to himself, "There's a bad case." He looked at the flash, yellow-haired young snob who was smoking, and said, "There's a worse." He looked at the villanous grey-headed old hut-keeper, and said, "There's a hopeless case altogether." But when he looked at the dry, neatly-dressed man, who sat in front of the fire, he said, "That seems a more likely person.

There is some sense of order in him, at all events.

See what I can do with him." He stood with his towering tall black figure in the doorway.

The sleepy young man sat up and looked in wonder, while his parrot whistled and chattered loudly.


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