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The Adventures of Harry Richmond

CHAPTER XVIII
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He flogged you: let that pass.

He exposed you to the contempt of your school-fellows because of a breach in my correspondence with a base-born ferule-swinger.

What are we coming to?
Richie, my son, I was building a future for you here.

And Colonel Goodwin-Colonel Goodwin, you encountered him too, and his marriageable daughter--I owe it to them that I have you here! Well, in the event of my sitting out the period this morning as the presentment of Prince Albrecht, I was to have won something would have astonished that unimpressionable countryman of ours.

Goodness gracious, my boy! when I heard your English shout, it went to my marrow.


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