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The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn

CHAPTER XXXVI
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"I am going to quarter here to-night and chance it," he said.

"Hallo! Dick, my prince! You here?
And what may your name be, old cock ?" he added, turning to me, now seeing me indistinctly for the first time, for I was sitting back in the shadow.
"My name is Geoffry Hamlyn.

I am a Justice of the Peace, and I am at your service," I said.

"Now perhaps you will favour me with YOUR name ?" The young gentleman did not seem to like coming so suddenly into close proximity with a "beak," and answered defiantly,-- "Charles Sutton is my name, and I don't know as there's anything against me, at present." "Sutton," I said; "Sutton?
I don't know the name.

No, I have nothing against you, except that you don't appear very civil." Soon after I rolled myself in a blanket and lay down.


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