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John Halifax
Gentleman

CHAPTER XXV
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Be patient; we'll lodge you all somehow.

To-morrow I will pay your rent--get your goods back--and you shall begin the world again, as my tenants, not Lord Luxmore's." "Hurrah!" shouted the men, easily satisfied; as working people are, who have been used all their days to live from hand to mouth, and to whom the present is all in all.

They followed the master, who settled them in the barn; and then came back to consult with his wife as to where the women could be stowed away.

So, in a short time, the five homeless families were cheerily disposed of--all but Mary Baines and her sick boy.
"What can we do with them ?" said John, questioningly to Ursula.
"I see but one course.

We must take him in; his mother says hunger is the chief thing that ails the lad.


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