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Springhaven

CHAPTER XXXVII
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"I am sure that there is nobody in Sussex, Kent, or Hampshire who does not admire and respect and trust you." "I dare say, and rejoice to see me do the work they ought to do.

They have long nights in bed, every one of them, and they get their meals when they want them.

I am not at all astonished at what Nelson said.

He is younger than I am by a good many years, but he seems to have picked up more than I have, in the way of common sentiments, and such like.
'You may do everybody's work, if you are fool enough,' he said to me the last time I saw him; 'and ease them of their souls as well, if you are rogue enough, as they do in the Popish countries.

I am nearly sick of doing it,' he said, and he looked it.


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