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The Adventures of Harry Richmond

CHAPTER XXIX
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It wants blasting.

Your married clergy and merchandized aristocracy are coils: they are the ivy about your social tree: you would resemble Laocoon in the throes, if one could imagine you anything of a heroic figure.

Forward.' In desperation I exclaimed, 'It 's useless! I have not thought at all.
I have been barely educated.

I only know that I do desire with all my heart to know more, to be of some service.' 'Now we are at the bottom, then!' said he.
But I cried, 'Stay; let me beg you to tell me what you meant by calling me a most fortunate, or a most unfortunate young man.' He chuckled over his pipe-stem, 'Aha!' 'How am I one or the other ?' 'By the weight of what you carry in your head.' 'How by the weight ?' He shot a keen look at me.

'The case, I suspect, is singular, and does not often happen to a youth.


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