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"It's very well for you to talk," said Essec Powell "You are a rich

s to Shoni, and it is

very hard that Valmai should have all my brother's money, and I be left

with none"

"I think it is hard," said Mr Lewis Wynne, "and as my nepheill be a

very wealthyto

pay you every year the amount which you lost by your brother's will"

"You think that?" said Essec Powell; "150 pounds a year--you think they

would give ive youhis book upside down carefully on the

table, "that will make me a happy ht without feeling that ive all "

"What is it?" said the Vicar, no longer able to restrain his interest

in the old books which littered the table

"Well, it is the history of our own county from as far back as I can

trace it; and, oh! you wouldn't believe," he said, "how ether I was nottoo old and worn-out to travel about the

country I would like to give up preaching and spend all my time with

my books And with 150 pounds a year! Why, I would be a prince