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John Caldigate

CHAPTER XXVII
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But you will tell me everything ?' 'Everything,' he said.

Then he kissed her, and went back again to his unwelcome guests.

She was not long before she followed him, bringing her baby in her arms.

Then she took the child round to be kissed by all its relatives, and afterwards bowed politely to the two men, and told them that she was glad to see her husband's old friends and fellow-workmen.
'Yes, mum,' said Jack Adamson; 'we've been fellow-workmen when the work was hard enough.

'T young squire seems to have got over his difficulties pretty tidy!' Then she smiled again, and nodded to them, and retreated back to her mother.
Mrs.Bolton scowled at them, feeling certain that they were godless persons;--in which she was right.


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