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"YOU must do me the credit to say, dear Mr. Oxton," said the widow North, one evening at the Bend, "that I always hated Mr. O'Ryan most cordially. But I never believed him to be a fool,--yes, I will say it, a fool,--till now."
"You are quite sure he is one, then?" said Mr. Oxton.