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The Adventures of Harry Richmond

CHAPTER XXIV
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I MEET THE PRINCESS.
Hearing that I had not slept at the hotel, the Rev.Ambrose rushed down to Riversley with melancholy ejaculations, and was made to rebound by the squire's contemptuous recommendation to him to learn to know something of the spirit of young bloods, seeing that he had the nominal charge of one, and to preach his sermon in secret, if he would be sermonizing out of church.

The good gentleman had not exactly understood his duties, or how to conduct them.

Far from objecting to find me in company with my father, as he would otherwise have done by transmitting information of that fact to Riversley, he now congratulated himself on it, and after the two had conversed apart, cordially agreed to our scheme of travelling together.

The squire had sickened him.


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