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The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

CHAPTER XXIII
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Hippias prognosticated certain indigestion for himself on the morrow.

The Eighteenth Century wondered whether she should live to see another birthday.

Adrian drank the two-years' distant term of his tutorship, and Algernon went over the list of the Lobourne men who would cope with Bursley on the morrow.

Sir Austin gave ear and a word to all, keeping his mental eye for his son.

To please Lady Blandish also, Adrian ventured to make trifling jokes about London's Mrs.
Grandison; jokes delicately not decent, but so delicately so, that it was not decent to perceive it.
After dinner Richard left them.


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