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Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia

CHAPTER XX
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There will be time enough for this, and you will perhaps be more ready and resigned when I have got rid of this youth in whom you are so much interested.

I need not disguise my purpose to you--you must have known it, when conspiring for its defeat; and now, Lucy, be assured, I shall not slumber in pursuit of him.

I may be delayed, my revenge may be protracted, but I shall close with him at last.

With holding the clue which you may unfold, can not serve him very greatly; and having it in your hands, you may serve yourself and me.

Take my offer--put me on his route, so that he shall not escape me, and be free henceforward from pursuit, or, as you phrase it, from persecution of mine." "You offer highly, very highly, Guy Rivers, and I should be tempted to anything, save this.


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