| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 1631 |
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- without a fire - I'll have you prosecuted. The place is not good enough for a stable - if you owned a valuable dog - you wouldn't keep it there - I give you fair warning - I know - enough - about you - to put you - where you deserve to be - if you don't treat him better I'll have you punished I'll show you up.' Rushton continued to stare at him in mingled confusion, fear and perplexity; he did not yet comprehend exactly what it was all about; he was guiltily conscious of so many things which he might reasonably fear to be shown up or prosecuted for if they were known, and the fact of being caught under such circumstances with Miss Wade helped to reduce him to a condition approaching terror. `If the boy has been there without a fire, I 'aven't known anything about it,' he stammered at last. |
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