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Hereupon Raffles, who had lifted his hat with the last words, turned

hi and walked away Will looked

after him a moment, and could see that he did not re-enter the

auction-roo towards the road For an

instant he thought that he had been foolish not to let thewithout knowledge

fro, however, Raffles overtook him in the street, and

appearing either to have forgotten the roughness of his for fareeted

hi at first on the

pleasantness of the town and neighborhood Will suspected that thehow to shake him off when Raffles

said--

"I've been abroad myself, Mr Ladislaw--I've seen the world--used to

parley-vous a little It was at Boulogne I saw your father--a most

uncommon likeness you are of him, by Jove! mouth--nose--eyes--hair

turned off your brow just like his--a little in the foreign style

John Bull doesn't do much of that But your father was very ill when I

saw hih You were a set well?"

"No," said Will, curtly