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Excerpt from A Son of the Soil: A Novel
I'm of a different opinion, said the stranger; I don't like walking up to the ankles in those filthy roads.
He was a boy of fifteen or so, the same age as young Colin, who stood Opposite him, breathing hard with opposition and natural enmity but the smart Etonian considered himself much more a man of the world and of experience than Colin the elder, and looked on the boy with calm contempt.
I'll be glad to dry my boots if you'll let me, he said, holding up a foot which beside young Colin's sturdy hoof looked preter naturally small and dainty.
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