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for tobacco was something quite extraordinary. After tobacco,
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the quarrel. So when cards were proposed he offered to
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one: fetch a doctor — stay. I’ll go home and bring
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about his old friend Dick the Scholar, who had got promotion,
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either a watch or a clock; and an old man who was supposed
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and his eyes filling as he spoke, “I never had a mother,
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enemies are mine, sir; I can use the foils, as you have
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performed all the offices (down even to listening to Dr.
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for tobacco was something quite extraordinary. After tobacco,
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home — Castlewood I mean”— my lord went on. “I
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But my good Lord Viscount saw the move —“I’ll play
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little cream-colored Hanoverian horses covered with splendid
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in all the finer points of big game hunting. Of an evening
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salary was always pretty well spent before it was due),
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And Harry, who had no such sum in his pocket (for his half-year’s
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