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Robert Falconer

CHAPTER XV
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I'll sen' up yer supper.

And Robert there 'll bide and keep ye company.' She vanished; and a moment after, Peggy appeared with a salamander--that is a huge poker, ending not in a point, but a red-hot ace of spades--which she thrust between the bars of the grate, into the heart of a nest of brushwood.

Presently a cheerful fire illuminated the room.
Ericson was seated on one chair, with his feet on another, his head sunk on his bosom, and his eyes thinking.

There was something about him almost as powerfully attractive to Robert as it had been to Miss Letty.
So he sat gazing at him, and longing for a chance of doing something for him.

He had reverence already, and some love, but he had never felt at all as he felt towards this man.


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