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The Lion of the North

CHAPTER XX FRIENDS IN TROUBLE
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I don't know what you are going to do, and I don't want to know.

I have run quite a risk enough as it is, and mean, directly the count is lodged in the prison, to make my way home, having collected a dowry which will enable me to buy a farm and marry my bachelor, who has been waiting for me for the last three years.

His father is an old curmudgeon, who has declared that his son shall never marry except a maid who can bring as much money as he will give him.

I told Fritz that if he would trust to my wits and wait I would in five years produce the dowry.

Now I have treble the sum, and shall go off and make Fritz happy." "He is a lucky fellow," Malcolm said laughing.


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