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Lorna Doone
A Romance of Exmoor

CHAPTER XXV
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You have a clerk as much as I have.
There it is.

Now I pray thee, take to the study of the law.

Possession is nine points of it, which thou hast of me.

Self-possession is the tenth, and that thou hast more than the other nine.' Being flattered by this, and by the feeling of the two guineas and half-crown, I dropped my hold upon Counsellor Kitch (for he was no less a man than that), and he was out of sight in a second of time, wig, blue bag, and family.

And before I had time to make up my mind what I should do with his money (for of course I meant not to keep it) the crier of the Court (as they told me) came out, and wanted to know who I was.


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