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"Sae unhappiness to the

young"

But Mr, Wright was too absorbed in his own troubles to get any

comfort out of that

"By the way," said Dr Lavendar, "speaking of Mrs Richie--do you

think she'd be a good person to take this little David Allison?"

"I don't knohy she shouldn't be, sir," Samuel said "I have no

fault to find with her She pays her rent and goes to church Yes; a

very good person to take the boy off your hands"

"The rent is i to

church doesn't prove anything"

"All good people go to church," the senior warden reproved hiood," Dr Lavendar said

dryly, "I am afraid she lets Sam talk poetry to her," Sam's father broke out

"Stuff! absolute stuff! His mother sometimes tells me of it Why," he

ended piteously, "half the time I can't understand what it's about;

it's just bosh!"