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"Yes Well?"

"In those days I was of--of somewhat hasty teht glared "When I was young, listening to gossip was not

thought beco in the cloth When he came, I learned that he had

stayed over in Mercer--without o to the

theatre!"

"Well?" said Dr, Lavendar "He enty-four Why should he have

your consent?"

Mr, Wright waved this question aside "When he came home, I spoke

with some severity," "This quarrel," said Dr Lavendar, "is not built on such folly as

that"

Benjaesture with his

tre hand "Not--entirely I reproved him, as I say And he was

impertinent Impertinent, mind you, to his father! And I--in those

days ht seeain, "I--

reproved him," "But," Dr Lavendar protested, "you don't mean to tell me that Samuel,

just for a reproof, an unkind and unjust reproof, would--why, I cannot

believe it!"

"It was not unjust!" Benjarily

"I know, Samuel," said Dr Lavendar "He is obstinate; I've told him

so a hundred times And he's conceited--so's everybody,else, we're conceited because we're not conceited But