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BY -1-1..w..:f,,,y.,:..i:-:'.4-...•,c-RuAg.R-
ON A PORTRAIT' OF -THE AlTtliOß"' OF
AND HIS FRIENDS."
• - '
Here's a face , without a farrow— f
John Brown's.of E dinboro' .
"Wm. John, Itis . cronies eall'hitn,
Oh, let nothing ill befall him,
Nothing cross,Uie cpen door
But' what bounteous tortun'es pour.
Coma! ealth to thatohn Brown
'
Who, in Edinboro' town,
Practices for , evor3r,body,
Pay or no pay. There's noshoddy \I
In his sterling-fine condition,
He is such -a :.:'good -PhYsician 2) '
Givp
Jive st9Wart' health
To him WM'rs - grand,things by stealth ;
Him yotellileTl.4
_find i-sleeping •
When there i S - .Wnit or' Setrrow weeping :
When there's "something ko be done," ,
Straight to Putlda Street folks run. ,
Here's a. forehead without frown,
Signed and countersigned John Broion.
What a brain ! itselt's a
, bumper :
Did you ever see a plumper, _
One,more full of strength and kindness,
One for faults more prone to blindn,i
Written so with -love all over,'
Like a hillock thick with clover, • ,
Like that dome, When Chritsmtis comes,
Stuffed with everlasting plums ?
Here's John Brown engraved before ye
Here's, a head that'tells a story !
Srectactes on nose
,—d'ye mind 'em
And.a pair of eyta behind 'em .
Throw such light, on this old planet,
All your Tyndalls could notppan it.
Come I a rouse to. Doctor John,
Including Jack, his brainy son,
Ineluding every dog he owns;
And dear old Itab—ileaventeep hikones I
For, when .th 4 Doctorts sight grows dark, •
That dog will give a kindly bark,
And lilt his bead once niore to feel
A friendly arm around him steal,
And though in ghost-120, tar away,
Where dogs' (who: knoWs'l) are all at play,
Will start to` bear his 6cottish name
And lick the 'band that. 'gave hlm lame.
ND YOU pcisitively refuse r'
/1
_ .
"Positively—absolutely."
A peculiar sound; siioh as; might issue
froth the lips of a woman who strives to
repress an exclamation of pain came.from
the room beyond; but the two men were,
so absorbed by their conversation that
they did' not heed. it.
There was a singular ,Contrast between .
the pair and no observer, looking at them
as - they stood tozether, Could poisibly
have guesse&- thatsthere, was bat ten
year's difference in their ages.' The first
was bent and broken in form ; cheek
and forehead were deeply, lined, an in
hair and beard the silver threads had,
long predominated over! the gold. Yet
the man was .not snore than fifyears
old. His companionlaged forty a ppeared
simply to have-leached- that time in life
when the creature to whOm was given
"dominion over all things" seems worthy
of his grey t.cortimission: The latter was
handsome;
the 'former had been. _ . •
"I could scarcely have expected this,
Hastings," said the younger.
"And I could scarcely ha've expected
that von would fall in love .with the girl.'
We were boys together.", ' •
..Aild now 1' Hill . an old ;man .decaye.d
and broken,, while you aro`sin th prime
of bfV, with all the world before, you.
After some. Fuel] , fashion, - tans Our
lip.uglir, does it , ' not ?"
An . answer would -- have. involved :Pre-
Ftt I.,e it i ion or a lie, O.,nsequen fly mine was
!wide, anti whPn:- the rilan'tbus.question-.
spoke again it, was to ,attacii the bob-,
j -et fr.tn anoth. , r qiuirter: 1:
gi . ve tne.,a rea'son ?"
"("ertainly -31 y reason
for:refii•iing• tb accept, you as_ a Son-in-law
is—Felfishness, pure and . siinOle.".
"You. irttelid that Zillah Ball remain
- all her life?"
"I intend nothing. She is happy. Let
"Hilt suppeßing t,bat that point
NI are mistaken ?1,, : 1f her happines s wPre already involve ? }Takings,.
.be
'too D able, Lainnot "a . vain man, but
think she lovelfme:" „
"Por God's k' imare rue. that:"
"I will not... Why should I: 0 It is
natural, snitable..,_ When ever yet 1141.0
man hesitate;'t,O'tfaito the -,vvoman
lotO, knowing,, feeliug that, she loved:
hit ? What has own experience
liPen.l Did you nelierl,l love stitne,: fair
fragile girl better that, 'Your own .1110" f.
"I loved her. - mother,', Patton. Look
at my bent ,head 'und withered ,franie,
and ask me:if
.I`,tieier
"I never net; her you , know." There
trts a halt apologetic toriein the -words.
—The speaker had '&14.4 unaware upon
a bitter theme:
"No, von " nev er her, l and 'probably,
lik e a thousand,9thepi whOhase loq,ke4-
Upon Zillah's 'sivartlq elleekailinclave , l
4 , 4l _r r er:but never dared to ask, TIT was
who-firatthe.. - • -
ZILLAH.
-The 'Vest
the nearly
room beyond
son made its way through
4losed: dOor, and into the
where a girl with the Ins-:
yes Uric) full crimson lips
) owy one race on earth lis
le intentness that longs for
lx a'coming reiebition: •
r, Dalton, continued the
the miserable story of my.
Ike You ,
any. less intent up.,
le of my.child ?",
call it robbery."
trops black
that baking
tened t
and yet area
, wonde
older : m_an,
fe. wolilhi
on robblng:'
- Abi but
lier from MI;
- do. Not rubbery to take .
.heart to dwellibeneath your'
and serve you, .to .becorne ,
of your house; to, cradle
,your
z : '- her breast, until she had
nor strength nor inelination_
ught, to. 'me ! Call - it what
name. matters:little."
e- about to tell me of her
roof; t9.lcove,
the taiptoo4
children
neither time
!xi'gtve a titi
you hke;:th
"You we
"A.nd tot
the parepial
rally yon are interested in
!e ofjbegifL i you- propOse to
per the ti übletn-
I. -7
name is not; . 0t course, un
the section , of thUt noble
marry. Pr
ished Dalt°
becoming i
ree."
"Have dp
Tell your*
defy you to
e with sneers, Hastings.--
ry or not, as you please. I
eep me from my.wife, if I
can win he
,
"Then ha , e your tale,. and if you do
not yield to pity, perhapa...,you will to
shame. First of all, there is half an
ounce of lead In the region of my lungß
that year by year makes long continued
talking tuor painful. Will , you grudge
the service one by bringing me a glasi
of wine ? 'Der that I Fhall Offer you a
chair." .• 1 • -
"It seems an i r tripertMence, my friend,"
began the elder,. when they were both
seated, "toai l ik a man so young looking
as yourself ,to g o back into the past for
such - a diStalice as - twenty years. How
ver, it must be done, and out of the
mists and obiciirity I make no doubt
you will . remember - Harry Hastings as he
was." • .
c
, "I do ,re' ember hini—a handsome
youth,,pron r
talented,, and - the favorite
of the whole village where he lived."
"Yes ;an just in . the same ratio that
the whole vi lage was fond of me; I hated
the whole vi lage." •
"But not he Wises." -
"No. ' Dallton,- there are men in the
world to whb, m the influence of women
matters little. 'They have little taste kik'
or interest it anything feminine. When
they lore an . marry, they manage the
;
business
. in commonplace manner. If
their wives , re.congenial, very-..we1l ; if
not,they ha : other
other interests and occupa
tions... And. should, theirs whole menage
be .pverturn, d by , infidelity and crime,
they locik neon, , the business as - "spilled
milk. Thei esclandre -annoys them, but
they go on. - They succeed jin their pro-,
fessions, rest h the top of the lodder,vrrite
their names lon the roll Of, fame. They
decline to, b victimized by circumstances,
and hold th it lives out of reach of the
disturbances caused by domestic infelici
ties. The'r - are other men—a weaker
class—who women have it in their
power to TO 2 1 . lan 011 E. •
"Yiin Fay
after a mom
indifferent ti
yet I do not
having may
never did
moat' .truly," he. continued,
'nt's . pouse,,"that I - was not
the girls of, the village, and
think you ''ean accuse me of.
e lope to' any of . them. I
a.,
Only a coarse natnre,l
think, e;er
Which • the h
depend. - - .Tli
tiebtive. towti
tO.'theitpere,
Of their re.ll
ful..profundi!
ant RS: a :co I
would nave .
heart. Iri .n
'the sweet yo
tyky.pwn,.shd
an. lospiratii
earvating. i
Ohanced
*earinesfs do
Bred the pro
business of
earth in Jail'
trik'Way to • I
That. agitad
mown as'Etl
en Lich for rni
Not 'to' beh •
ouUterfeits an emotion upon
; eppines of a ivhOle life may
'es fair :Yodikee girls • of our
lid `no t 'suit me;
,I:Objected
.
lA:pry manners,thestrength ,
Pious - prpjudicesand the am.-
iy of . their • learning.. Pleas
1
pillor, any-one of them
een- intolerable• -as a sweet:.
in ,I- looked. among. -the m : for
fingAile that, : absorbedinto
;Rid give it
,a .purpose and
en, and .left - -me, above the en
fluence : of the future.l bad.
inherit...• : . 'Finally, ..absolute,
ove me abroad,:..lt 1 8 bOnsid.. ,. :
per thingjorieimes,se : dore. to
'cordially : a8 : !I: detested the :
ushing over the face of.. the;
car. 'pr. steamboat, I..di4Tmake
ngland.. tur'nn - ; further.-.: -
d ' mass •-cif 'liquid* iniquity
e English Channel
: IVagloo
!•'• T. declined''' - tb* cross 'it.L-.
d . the land'
o nf 'Claude' LOr;
I again' trust. my stotnaolle
of the waves. ,But I had
that. it Was My' infeation
artist. Neveitheiess, such'
. The fancy, so natural - to a
raise would
to`the - mere
i49t. tol4 yo
beCotne an
was.the
'drearily yid Ii with . a delicate constitu
i
tion, bad fu I possession of, me. I lo l veu
fair McAbee ' aturey and I longed to re
produce so. etbing of beauty ' Upon can.
vas. So I sketched' many
_A ' beautiful
Spot on the :bores of, 'perildlone!, 7 Altiion;
and deferral ed not to "leave-: hq, until a
bridge silo ld be built', to protect : me
9 1
trom.the'Terile of the sea.',": _ Occasionally:
I_went into, inky , but, the, prim .'gng
liqh 'inaiilen, I'fpund on ',acquintane.e
eve 4 more tOlerablp, than
.tl),e , Yapkte,
'girls::' ','. . , _ ~ . '
i . 6 Orie lip oink I *aiiioei:4l.,Abroiiih ,a
, , , . , •
einali forest and enaccongilk,,myfelf undgr.
2 11. gloriptur 11-0 4 ak ttee bent upon elielebl.
mil
MONTIO.Z . : PA.,
...SEPT, ' ' 6,1.. :1876.
rf 1, - .1.1.'.. , ..)-';_.:-.',_.• .(, , , , ,::.: i - it' , ;.. .. .' 4,f'.,
.
it-1g one of those' strange relics of a lost
fatal, a heap of rocks supposed' to have
been in times pasta Druid altar. The
,Drulds did not, inspire ',me, however, for
I went to sleep leaving my. can vas.to re
tain its pristine purity, Suddenly I was
awaken by a violena altercation lust be
hind my -luxurioni °cinch. The
con testaLtti might - hive _been Jews, liere
titl,l3, or any other species of, heathen, so
far as:their language . was concerned, for
ricita single word . of: it could
statid ;-buta - mow- mitst — need — iiive very
diill - ears — whO does' n ot= etn bend the
cry of a woman Who is being ur .
sprang Up and . plunged• . in, among the
trees. Before me stoOd . a man Etnd,a girl,
itartted into Silence. by my unexpected
appearance; In later 'years, Dalton, I
have 'traveled in many climes and among
Many people, but never have I seen two
mere beautiful snecimens .of our race,
than the.two that confronted me. , The
man did not give me much nine to study
his swaithy, handsome face r for On catch
ing sight of me suddenly turned-and
strode in among the thicket. The girl
however, • remained gazing at me with
her great Nitrous eyes, not in the least
disposed to look upon me as ,a rescuer,
bU l t apparently doubtful whether the man
just arrived were riot, more dangerous
than the man just departed. 1 address-,
ed her in -English, and saw at a glance
that, however ignorant I might be of her
language. she at leait was partially' fain
liar with mine. Reassnred by my quiet
voice, her face lost its expression of terror
and, -we glided insensible -into a conversa
ticin, I exerted myself to the uttermost to
detain.her. So bewildered was 1 with her
extraordinary beauty that I felt the ,
light 'would go nut of the heavens if she
left me. When at last she did go, Thad
won from her a promise to meet me there,
again.. . • .
By this time you have probably divin
ed who my wild bird. of the forest was :
a !stray little wakf from one of- those
wandering tribes of Ishmaeliteo that
hipilization is_ so rapidly , exterminating:
a dusky little fairy,: deheate.and graceful
as', a sapling wonderfully, exquisitely
beautiful. The •qUarrel which I had in
terrupted was nothing more, it appeared
than the violent, arguments of a gypsy.
!Over who endeav ored to forward his suit
by crushing the. hand ht. desired to pos
-1 seas,
'"Orcctirse I fell in love with her. For
th,is it appears, I.had passed by some of
the fairest: women in England and
Anerica. An my hopes of happiness
and every longing of my soul entered in
the little, woodlan,d nymph I had found
b the old. Druid stone. And I had no ,
doubt that I had won her to love me. In
my besotted,• idiotic -infatuation I could
not remember that a great impulse had
been given . to our acquaintance by the
surrender on my part of a large sapphire ,
lit hung from my watch - chain. That
reed cotton mill in Massachusetts
fornishsd such things too liberally for
me to value them. It took some time
for my imagination 'to grasp - the fact that
the little hand that passed -caressingly'
oVer my bosom was. attracted thither by
-
my shirt studs. And yet I dare say that
I jam inisrenresenting. , : her. , She was
sO young and childish,dand passion for
or i l rament, w'as out the instinct of her
1"In my case the' conrse of true love
ran, or appeared to.rult; with remarkable
sntoothitess. The sight of golden circlet.
that was to he her wedding ring did :not
alarm her as a similtir suggestion had
dOnA on the part of her last lover; and
one day a romantic ' cut;ate . of the neigh
bOring parish, whose acquaintance I had
made pronounced US 'Tan and wife,' in
the very shadow of:' the old Druid oak.'
Then, in 'a shooting'bOX amidst the Scot
ti3h heather, whither I Itook my bride hir
three short monthv, I endulged 'in, all the
luxury of loveLs young I dream. And she
too was happy. It takes fully three
months fora woman to explore - all the
miracles of finery 4141 furniture, with
which the fashion of the present day
,surr .
ounds l a bride ;* for. although I shad
married her in her, wild gypsy garb, Lon
thin iiilliners and uphelsterers had pre
pared' her home. I
l"It" was ' knowledge that broke the'
charm in. Eden. Well,.the first cloud
gathered over us- upon the . day that -I
ga"ve up wandering ov the hills with
my gypsy bride, and having unpacked 4,
cafe of books, venture, to appear before
her in:the character' of a pedagogue. i
was just explaining o her the awful,..
I .
meaning and significance of the letter A.
asL it appeared on 'th first page. of a
primer, when she - bro: : , . away from me
.and rushed away through the'garden and
Into•the wood!). Smiling at the result of
~,,
the first lesson, I lit a cigar and fell to
drciaming- of the :pleas re T should -yet ..l
have ii, guiding- my., dainty little wife
along the rough road_ that l led to know',
edge. It would'be a labor . of loVe, and.
howeyer painful,Ahe result would surely
repay us both..:. Aud surely her ignorance
wag sweilter hart all till accoasplishments
• ~ . . • . _
of any °the -,!VP1X141:1..; d • ~.
"Matt' y nigkti as I was Closlps' ihe
e i
:shutters of my'roon3 t**nsiO retiring,:
I. was atartled -byittie Ogilvie a Man'ttri
-1
on the lawn. Something in gait re
minded red the lithe form that strode
away from us on the first dayl met my
love. I attached no. importance to it,
_however : and yat, during the months
that followed, I "met tdm three times,
always apparently on 40 way; to orfrom
my house.
"But a great anxiety -was upon me.—,
The cheeks of my, gypsfmaiden were los=
lug their losts; she could no longer -roam.
_through-the- heather. with her hand in
mine; and 1 shuddered as I thonglit -, of
tti_consuramatiou of the trial in store
for her. At laSt I,orkfered the servants
,to pick up our' belongingi, and I hurried
away with, my bride to one of the suburbs
of London, where she _might have the.
most skillful physica.a to. attend her. L i
will spare you the record of the long
weeks during which I had , no !other care
in life than to watch over, wait upon,andi
care fOr‘the,frail form of a- woman whose
heart had long 'since passed out of my
keeping,,if I had ever posseesed e it. For .
what I mistook far disease was nothing
more than .the longing of the Zingari '
blood for the freedom of its- native for
eats. Like a bird in a cage I was
,killing
her by my -very care , for hei. I cannot
tell you how well I loved her,' ; still less
could I give,
.you an idea of the rapture
of thanksgiving that possessed my soul
on the night that , they put her baby in
my arms, and told' me her life was safe.
Yet mindful . of my ditties 'as a host, I
quietly surrendered the infantile wonder,
and hastened to accompany 'the weary
physician to the door.'of our house. I
lingered a- moment, watching , ' him as he
passed the gate,' when suddenly there
darted from among- the , trees the same
I figure that had grown so familiar in the
Scottish highlands.. The moonlight fell
on the handsome face, and showed the
same anxious• expresaion my own bad
worn during the past week. The man
siezed the doctor. by the arm,,apparently
asked same eager question, to which he
received an affirmative - answer, and then
disappeared. •
•
"1 never saw him but once more. A
month. later—l, had nursed
M y darling
back to health—when, coming back from
a short journey to London, I saw a car
riage drive rapidly away from, my gate.---
There were only two'occuoants—my wife
and her gypsy lover. Instinctively I
rushed toward them ;:and. siezed the
horses by the bridle. Then a sudden
flash. followed by a report, and the bul
let intended tor my heart buried itself
in my- It ngs..
"I can not tell you • what followed.—
All I know is that when I saw my child
again it was over three months old. After
that I .went mad. They tell' me that 1
wandered from place to place all over
Europe, while people wondered at the
silent man, ,ever in motion, and always
accompanied by a b arse andinfant
At last a circumstance aroused tfie. The
news 'came- that the executors of my'
father's will had contrived to - hnie my for
tune, and 'I was, poor. -Then we came to
New, York—My little Zillah, whom I
named after my, mother, and I. Here we
have. lived, ;Dalton ; here." have dragged
out the miserable existence of an invalid,
here I have - brciughe up my child froin
infancy to womanhood, until she has be
come -to me soinething of what her moth
er might have been• we t w have -been
tile:her through better, through worse,
and much of it. 'has been worse. - Now
you propose:N take. her from, roe, know
irg that she is all I have in the .world—
that whatever she may he to , you, I can
not live without her. it is an awkward
thing to' wind all ones heart about a wo
man, lie she wife Or child. have done
it, and mine is a claim .no one. `should
dispute.. Will you withdraw , your de.
mand, Dalton ? Methinks
_there is 'a
parallel 'to it in 4he story of, David and
'•llid you ever: hear of the Mother
again, Hastings ?" -
"Only that she died. The .habits of
her people; where marriage bOnd.S
gaickiy.shakeG loose when hive fails;made
it seem no crime to leave me•; but When
the ?wild desire-to be free'. was gratified;
they say she pined . and died.. But vou
have, not, answered. my .queetian..
yob leave me my child ? '
you let me decide ?"
In the Silenws that iolloived,. Zillah.
stood in the. doorway:: Slenderand bnan
tiful, with the.longing or love the soft
dark eyes and the stern rigor of deter
mination around, her mouth .; 'the clear
voice answered : '
"1 have decided!'
"To become Dalton 's wife
It queried
the. bitter yinee of the invalid.
A singleword, shaft) with pain, cut
the iti - r—'qsiever !" -
"Yet you love' Ile,' Zillah ?" pleaded
the
fhis time the- girl spoke with less
etrort - <
""No,, I do. not." .
• Angry and talletil Dalton went his
way. Yet She, did love hitri, , and'tiOth .
and Ilastingis knew it,
tile•• .giOrieB;: :Of eels= u e are
/ 10 k ,for- the , <weak f• SITheA4 tli(fluktani
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be strong. Zillah 's passionate prayer for
, .
strength to endure her, trials was answer.;
edr by increasing weakness and onec - more.,
Hastings watched a woman - he. .16*ett ,
better than ,his life _fading before .hits
eyes. From afar of he saw the end ap.,
proaciiing and' knew that. he must let •
her to. No word ils' needed betweenthe two . ; but.; each understood all that
.the other .wOrild have. Said, .when . the
'father finally announced. "I have written
to Dalton," and the girl bowed her head
upon his nand, and answered, "I tried,
indeed 1 tripe,' Then the, rases bloomed
again 'id the 'kypsy 'cheeks: but the steps .
of the invalid•grew 'slower • and slower,
and, that fatal - burden of lead pressed
'even more. leatilt into the we akened
We -
lungs.
White and cold 'were
,the camellias
that graced the wedding and white and
-cold gleaming the same lowers within
Hastings coffin ere, the year was out.-
Exhausted by her bitter sorrow, Dalton
left' his
.wife to follow the sad — procession
windinc , b toward - it • grave. •As he turned
frt.rn the freshly leaped mound, he mur
mured. '
"It is thestory of Sean . .Valjeun and
Oosette over again ;" and translated in
to bungling English he. repeated 'the
lines that close the 'history of that'sor
rowful. life: •
"He sleeps, though living he was sorely
tried ; • •
He suffered; when his 'angel left him, died
4.13 peacfully and gently as the day,
When the sun leaves it, into evening fades
• away."'
A Touching
A. drumkard- who bad run through his
property returned one night to his " un
finished home. He entered his empty
hall. Anguished with gnawing at his
heart strings, and langnage was inade.
quate to express his agony. as he entered
his wife's apartment and': there beheld
the victims of his appetite, his loving
wife and darling child... Morose and sul
len, he seated hulled( without a word;,
he couldnot. speak
.; he could :notloolt`
up then .. The mother said - to the little
one by her side : •
"Come, my dear, it is time to go to
bed," and that little baby, as usual, knelt ,
by her monther's lap, and gazing wist
fully into the face of her suffering pa
rent like a 'piece of chiseled 'statuary,
slowly repeated her nightly orison.
When she bad , finished the child (but
fouryears old) said to the Mother :
"Dear mother, may I not offer one
more 'prayer ?" -
• "Yes, yes, my sweet pet, pray."
And she lifted up her :tiny handy, clos
ed her eyes and prayed : .
"Oh, God, spare,oh spara my dear
.
pap 2 7 •
a. .
That prayer was lifted With &drib
_rapidity to the throne of God. It was
,heard on high ; it was heard on earth.—
The response "Amen 1" ,burst from, the
father's,lips and his ! heart of stone be
came a. heart of 'flesh. ' Wife- and child
were both clasped to his bosom, andin
penitence be - said :
"My child, you have- saved your father
from a drunkard's grave . ; sign . the
A man,in digging a load of Rind 'from a
sadd bank, was buried to his shbtilders
by an avalanche "of the treae, erous earth.
When discovered by his frien s, he had
been planted, three honrsoind w a begin
ning to grow—discouraged. •
• .
An eminent and *my .pfelate Was
once ask 4 if he - did. 'riot,' think such A'
one. followed his conscience.- •"Yes;". aid
nis: lordship; . "I, thltilt he follows it as a..
man does alio:me in a-. gig-be , drives ; it ,
.first."
A returned AUstrian found the 'baby
he left at home a, miss of .five summers.
One day he:offended her,
,and she fret-,..:
fully exclaimed, "I wish pia bad ne-vex,'
married into the family ' ! " •
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"Epbraiin," said' Strnon, "whit cloei a
young, falai look like, ,whe,ti, gallinting
his sweetheart. through' a shower P.-TT ;
"Why; he has.-wy.,trinch
.the appearance
or
,a rain- bean. . .
"Big long4egge& man tion't
sometimes cget, ahead 'of little boys;"
Chinese for The race is not always for
the swifVf
"Any lettere for 'Mike Hoare ?"' 1 aBked
an - individual of' a Clerk it a post office
window. "No letters for anybody's cow."
It is uonjured that, professional thieves
lead a comfortable life, because they take .
things easy:
•
olfr. , Brown, I we you a grudge ; four
I never knew-yeu to pay anythingltiat . .
you. owed.." - -
The mail who ate hit; dinner with the .
`fork otii, river has been 'trying to iPiva—
ionatain 'top. 1
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