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Excerpt from Percy Hamilton, or the Adventures of a Westminster Boy, Vol. 2 of 3
Duct than a mere amiable weakness on the part of the tender-hearted Achille; and, among other insinuations, it was hinted that a settlement of one hundred a year upon the mother, and the same sum during the life of the young stranger (that had been born to this modern Mrs. Haller), accounted for the forgiving disposition of the aggrieved Maine? De Ballet. Charles, for so this off shoot was named, after his real father, showed by his high-minded bearing that some noble blood still ?owed in his veins, however much the stream might have been polluted by its confluence with other and less pure sources.
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