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The Shadow of the North

CHAPTER X
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I'll send for seats and we'll go together." Willet's eyes sparkled.
"In truth I'll go, too, and right gladly," he said.

"You and I, Benjamin, have seen the plays of Master Shakespeare together in London, and 'twill please me mightily to see one of them again with you in New York.

Jonathan, here, will be of our company, too, will he not ?" Master Pillsbury pursed his lips and his expression became severe.
"'Tis a frivolous way of passing the time," he said, "but it would be well for one of serious mind to be present in order that he might impose a proper dignity upon those who lack it." Benjamin Hardy burst into a roar of laughter.

Robert had never known any one else to laugh so deeply and with such obvious spontaneity and enjoyment.

His lips curled up at each end, his eyes rolled back and then fairly danced with mirth, and his cheeks shook.


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