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The American Senator

CHAPTER XVI
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MR.

GOTOBED'S PHILANTHROPY.
Mr.Gotobed, when the persecutions of Goarly were described to him at the scene of the dead fox, had expressed considerable admiration for the man's character as portrayed by what he then heard.

The man,--a poor man too and despised in the land,--was standing up for his rights, all alone, against the aristocracy and plutocracy of the county.

He had killed the demon whom the aristocracy and plutocracy worshipped, and had appeared there in arms ready to defend his own territory,--one against so many, and so poor a man against men so rich! The Senator had at once said that he would call upon Mr.Goarly, and the Senator was a man who always carried out his purposes.

Afterwards, from John Morton, and from others who knew the country better than Morton, he learned further particulars.


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