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'Pooh! sis, exclaimed Josephine, 'you mustn't think so hard of Mr. Radcliff's attentions. You must encourage him, for he is very rich, and we need money. 'Must you have money at the expense of my honor? demanded Sophia, with unwonted spirit. 'And why not? asked her mother in a severe tone. 'Must we starve on account of your silly notions about virtue, and such humbug?
His mind traveled back to those days twenty-five years ago when he and the sheepman had both hitched their horses in front of Helen Radcliff's home. It had been a fair fight between them, and he had won as a man should. But Brad had not taken his defeat as a man should. He had nourished bitterness and played his successful rival many a mean despicable trick.
Radcliff's second, the tall man with the shrouded countenance, walked to a short distance from the melancholy group, with a gloomy and abstracted air. While the Doctor made vain efforts to alleviate the sufferings of Radcliff, that unhappy man raised his dying eyes to Sydney's face, and said, faintly: 'Young man, my doom is just.
Radcliff's eyes literally blazed with fury as he strode towards the young lady's protector. 'You called me a ruffian, said he, 'take that for your impudence, and he attempted to strike the young man but the blow was skillfully warded off, and he found himself extended on the grass in a twinkling. Two policeman now ran up and demanded the cause of the fracas.
He knew that Radcliff's many vices were in a slight degree palliated by not a few excellent qualities which he possessed; and he sighed as he thought that such a brilliant intellect and such a happy combination of rare personal advantages should cease to exist, ere the possessor could repent of the sins of his past life.
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