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Springhaven

CHAPTER XXXVII
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But I never must hope for a bit of pleasure now." "You may depend upon it, sir," said Frank, "that Caryl Carne will be greatly pleased to see you.

And I think you will agree with me that a more straightforward and simple-minded man is not to be found in this country.

He combines what we are pleased to call our national dignity and self-respect with the elegant manners, and fraternal warmth, and bonhomie--as they themselves express it--of our friends across the water." "You be off! I don't want to be cross any more.

Two hundred thousand friends there at this moment eager to burn down our homes and cut our throats! Tired as I am, I ought to take a stick to you, as friend Tugwell did to his son for much less.

I have the greatest mind not to go near that young man.


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