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Castle Richmond

CHAPTER XIII
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Come, governor, ten minutes will tell the whole of it if you'll only mind your eye.

How did you begin with Sir Thomas ?" And then Aby went to the door, opened it very gently, and satisfied himself that there was nobody listening on the landing-place.
Mr.Mollett sighed wearily, but he knew that his only hope was to get this job of talking over.

"What was it you were saying, Aby ?" "How did you begin with Sir Thomas ?" "How did I begin with him?
Let me see.

Oh! I just told him who I was; and then he turned away and looked down under the fire like, and I thought he was going to make a faint of it." "I didn't suppose he would be very glad to see you, governor." "When I saw how badly he took it, and how wretched he seemed, I almost made up my mind to go away and never trouble him any more." "You did, did you ?" "And just to take what he'd choose to give me." "Oh, them's your hideas, hare they?
Then I tell you what; I shall just take the matter into my own hands hentirely.

You have no more 'eart than a chicken." "Ah, that's very well, Aby; but you did not see him." "Do you think that would make hany difference?
When a man's a job of work to do, 'e should do it.


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