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The Fortunate Youth

CHAPTER XXI
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I go into the unknown.

We'll have to fight, but we'll fight together.

You have courage, and I at least have that.

There's a seat in Parliament which I'll have to fight for afterwards like a dog for a bone, and an official position which brings in enough bread and-butter--" "And there's a fortune remarked Barney Bill.
"What do you mean ?" Paul swung round sharply.
"Yer father's fortune, sonny.

Who do yer suppose he was a-going to leave it to?
'Omes for lost 'orses or Free Zionists?
I don't know as 'ow I oughter talk of it, him not buried yet--but I seed his will when he made it a month or two ago, and barring certain legacies to Free Zionists and such-like lunatic folk, not to speak of Jane ere being left comfortably off, you're the residuary legatee, sonny--with something like a hundred thousand pounds.


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