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CHAPTER XX
To Spurlock it seemed as if a great iron door had swung in behind him, shutting
out the old world. I miss her a lot. He would refuse to listen and absolve her unshriven. She had a gold watch, a
very good gold watch that had been her mother’s, a pearl necklace that was also
pretty good, some unpretending rings, some silver bangles and a few other such
inferior trinkets, three pounds thirteen shillings unspent of her dress and book
allowance and a few good salable books. "
"That is your fault, none of mine. ‘Get out! Out, I say! Think I want another miserable cowardly good-for-nothing
wastrel on my hands? Begone! Out of my house!’
He drove them to the door, grimly satisfied when the girl’s nerve broke. He did his best not to grin. With his chisel so fine, tra la!
"There!" cried the boy, leaping from the stool, and drawing back a few paces on
the bench to examine his performance,—"that'll do. Still, he was puzzled because McClintock had not
spoken. We did not
know where to send … in case you died. ‘I’ll make you an offer. Fine but strong lines
marked the profile: that would speak for courage and resolution.
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