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The American Senator

CHAPTER XIV
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He brought home Kate the other day with hardly a rag of her sister's habit left.

She don't go out hunting any more." "Very well, my dear." "Indeed for the matter of that I don't see how any of them are to do anything.

What'll Lord Rufford do for you ?" "I don't want Lord Rufford to do anything for me." The attorney was beginning to have his spirit stirred within him.
"You don't want anybody to do anything, and yet you will do nothing yourself,--just because a set of drinking fellows in a tap-room, which you call a club--" "It isn't a tap-room." "It's worse, because nobody can see what you're doing.

I know how it was.

You hadn't the pluck to hold to your own when Runciman told you not." There was a spice of truth in this which made it all the more bitter.


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