[The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Henry Kingsley]@TWC D-Link bookThe Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn CHAPTER XLV 2/23
Get me your gun--where is it ?" "In my bedroom," said the Captain. The Doctor went off after it.
He reappeared again to complain that the caps would not fit; but, being satisfied on that score, he disappeared down the garden, on murderous thoughts intent. Sam got his father away into the verandah, and told him all his plans. I need hardly say that they met with the Major's entire approval.
All his plans I said; no, not all.
Sam never hinted at the end and object of all his endeavours; he never said a word about his repurchase of Clere.
The Major had no more idea that Sam had ever thought of such a thing, or had been making inquiries, than had the owner of Clere himself. "Sam, my dear boy," said he, "I am very sorry to lose you, and we shall have but a dull time of it henceforth; but I am sure it is good for a man to go out into the world by himself" (and all that sort of thing). "When you are gone, Brentwood and I mean to live together, to console one another." "My dear, are you coming in ?" said Mrs.Buckley.
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