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as yours are, to press you for just payment.
You’re not afraid to face them— you are

afraid to face your wife/

i I hate to make her unhappy/ pleaded
the father.

‘ And so you keep her in a fool’s para­
dise,’ retorted the lawyer, i Bah ! But,

as a matter of fact, I don’t advocate
bankruptcy/

* No ! What then ? ’
* Your pocket is empty enough. Put

your pride into it. There is a dear duty
before you. For the sake of your wife and

children you must be reconciled to your

father, 1
1 Never ! Even if he made the first
advance— -—1

4 Which he won‘t do/ interrupted the

lawyer.
Afy, noy no / He would never do that

— he could never do that ! Thus thought

poor Fairbrass, shrinking and sobbing by
the yew-tree, and wishing with all his sou]
that he could speak what he knew, and