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"I DON'T wish to stand in your way, Tom Flynn."
"And I don't wish to stand in your way, Paley Glasswood," replied Tom, with a refreshing promptness, which was intended to assure me, and did assure me, that he was my friend, and that he was unwilling to take any unfair advantage of me.