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The Newcomes

CHAPTER XII
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He knew me at once; and he says, 'Sir, your father acted like a gentleman, a Christian, and a man of honour.

Maxima debetur puero reverentia.
Give him my compliments.

I don't know his highly respectable name.' His highly respectable name," says Clive, cracking with laughter--"those were his very words.

'And inform him that I am an orphan myself--in needy circumstances'-- he said he was in needy circumstances; 'and I heartily wish he'd adopt me.'" The lad puffed out his face, made his voice as loud and as deep as he could; and from his imitation and the picture he had drawn, I knew at once that Fred Bayham was the man he mimicked.
"And does the Red Rover live here," cried Mr.Pendennis, "and have we earthed him at last ?" "He sometimes comes here," Mr.Honeyman said with a careless manner.

"My landlord and landlady were butler and housekeeper to his father, Bayham of Bayham, one of the oldest families in Europe.


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