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Springhaven

CHAPTER XXVII
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And now you go ever so far beyond what the Club doth, in speaking of the right that every poor man hasn't.

I could listen to you by the hour, sir, and learn the difference between us and abroad." "Tugwell, I could tell you things that would make a real man of you.

But why should I?
You are better as you are; and so are we who get all the good out of you.

And besides, I have no time for politics at present.
All my time is occupied with stern business--collecting the ruins of my property." "But, sir--but you come down here sometimes from the castle in the evening; and if I might cross, without claiming right of way, sometimes I might have the luck to meet you." "Certainly you may pass, as often as you please, and so may anybody who sets value on his rights.

And if I should meet you again, I shall be glad of it.


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