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Updated: May 21, 2025
In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear; not Jefferson, nor Franklin, but now a great salesman; then a road-contractor; then a student of fishes; then a buffalo-hunting explorer, or a semi-savage western general. Thus we make a stand against our rougher masters; but against the best there is a finer remedy. The power which they communicate is not theirs.
In the course of time the doubly-desired and doubly-rejected Dorothy married, I believe, a respectable road-contractor the same, if I mistake not, who repaired and improved the old highway running from Wintoncester south-westerly through the New Forest and in the heart of this worthy man of business the poor girl found the nest which had been denied her by her own flesh and blood of higher degree.
Into the hall came Tim Murphy, the road-contractor and small farmer, who lived up a boreen from the bog. He was under the tailboard of the cart. Behind was his son Larry. There was a crowd of wet faces and tousled heads crowding in the dark looking into the hall.
He therefore gave up the farming occupation by which he had hoped to make himself a master-farmer, and left the spot to return to his mother. 'As soon as he got back to Longpuddle he found that Harriet had already looked wi' favour upon another lover. He was a young road-contractor, and Jack could not but admit that his rival was both in manners and scholarship much ahead of him.
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