Page:Eliot - Felix Holt, the Radical, vol. III, 1866.djvu/289

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THE RADICAL.
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up, thrusting his hands into his pockets, and creasing his brow playfully, "if you take me in that way I shall be forced to be a much better fellow than I ever thought of being."

"I call that retribution," said Esther, with a laugh as sweet as the morning thrush.