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Chapters from My Autobiography

CHAPTERS FROM MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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You do certainly know a good deal about that incident.

What is your name ?" "Burton Sanders." The Captain sprang up, excited, and said, "Give me your hand! Give me both your hands! I'd rather shake them than inherit a fortune!"-- and then he cried to the waiters, "Let him go!--take your hands off! He is my guest, and can have anything and everything this house is able to furnish.

I am responsible." There was a love-feast, then.

Captain Osborn ordered it regardless of expense, and he and Harte sat there and listened while the man told stirring adventures of his life and fed himself up to the eyebrows.

Then Osborn wanted to be benefactor in his turn, and pay back some of his debt.


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