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Mr Vernon nodded

"There's notcandor "We've never

set eyes on any of her swell connections, and I don't think she's ever

heard from them since the smash"

"What smash?" asked Mr Vernon, with only faint interest

"Didn't I tell you? Left the part of _Hamlet_ out of the play! Why,

father added a patent coffeepot to the roaster, and lost all his

money--or nearly all Then he died And we came here, and----There you

are, sir; that's the story; and the moral is, 'Let well alone'; or 'Be

content with your roaster, and touch not the pot' Sounds like the title

of a teetotal tract, doesn't it?"

"And you are at school, I suppose? No, you are too old for that"

"Thanks I was trying not to feel offended," said Dick "Nothing hurts a

boy ofhim he isn't a man No; I've left school, and