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"Your master is just a young fool. Why, in the name of a' that's reasonable," cried Mr. Monypenny, "did he not send for me?"
"Sir," said Rolls, "you're too sensible a man not to know that the last thing a lad is likely to do is what's reasonable, especially when he's in that flurry, and just furious at being blamed."