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Mr. Scarborough’s Family

CHAPTER IX
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I'm not going to ask you to stay.

Does it ever occur to you that you may never see me again ?" "What a question!" "It's one that requires an answer, at any rate." "It does occur to me; but not at all as probable." "Why not probable ?" "Because there's a telegraph wire from Tretton to London; and because the journey down here is very short.

It also occurs to me to think so from what has been said by Sir William Brodrick.

Of course any man may die suddenly." "Especially when the surgeons have been at him." "You have your sister with you, sir, and she will be of more comfort to you than I can be.

Your condition is in some respects an advantage to you.


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