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 72 there's an end of it. I won't have 'em exposed to the Briggs's and the Browns again: no, they shall know they have a mother, if they've no father to feel for 'em. What do you say, Caudle?

"THE TWENTY POUNDS I WILL HAVE, MR. CAUDLE, IF I'VE ANY."

"A good deal I must think of church, if I think so much of what we go in?

"I only wish you thought as much as I do, you'd be a better man than you are, Caudle, I can tell you; but that's nothing to do with it. I'm talking about decent