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Springhaven

CHAPTER XVIII
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"The climate is of France so much to-night that I found it my duty to encourage it.
For what reason shall not I do that?
It is not so often that I have occasion.

My dear friend, scold not, but accept the compliment very seldom truthful to your native land.

There are none of your clod-pates about to-night." "Come in at once.

The mere sound of your breath is enough to set the neighbourhood wondering.

Could I ever have been burdened with a more French Frenchman, though you speak as good English as I do ?" "It was all of that miserable Cheray," the French gentleman said, when they sat in the kitchen, and Jerry Bowles was feeding the fine black horse.


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