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Jack Nugent's first idea on seeing a letter from his father asking him to / meet him at Samson Wilks's was to send as impolite a refusal as a strong / sense of undutifulness and a not inapt pen could arrange, but the united / remonstrances of the Kybird family made him waver.
"You go," said Mr. Kybird, solemnly; "take the advice of a man wot's seen / life, and go. Who knows but wot he's a thinking of doing something for / you?"