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"Certainly not, certainly not; and for heaven's sake don't run away

with the idea that I can afford it any better than other poor vicars or

far that you have a 100 pounds a year of your own,

Cardo, which, by the by, you never spend inning to save up, I thought it well to

suggest to you a little holiday, a little break in your occupation"

"Once for all, sir, I have no wish to travel, so do not trouble your

head about me; I am perfectly contented and happy"

There was a ers,

and when he next spoke there was a little shake in his voice and a

little droop in his straight back

"Well," he said at length, "if that is the case, I need not expect you

to accede toman is contented and happy, it

is not to be expected he will alter his mode of life to please an old

man"

"And thatup and

taking his favourite attitude, with his elbow on the th? Why do you not tellI would not do, nothing I

would not sacrifice, that is--" and heVal except what I am about to ask you, I suppose?" said