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EUGENE ARAM.
"I? Bless your honour, I am no fool."
"Bunting!"
"Sir."
"You forget yourself."
"Augh!"
"So you don't think I should have lent the horse?"
"Sartainly not."
"On occasions like these, every man ought to take care of himself? Prudence before generosity?"
"Of a sartainty, Sir."
"Dismount, then,—I want my horse. You may shift with the lame one."
"Augh, Sir,—baugh!"
"Rascal, dismount, I say!" said Walter angrily: for the Corporal was one of those men who aim at governing their masters; and his selfishness now irritated Walter as much as his impertinent tone of superior wisdom.
The Corporal hesitated. He thought an ambuscade by the road of certain occurrence; and he was weighing the danger of riding a lame horse against
