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Ry, and yet I don't know why I should be angry. In a sense, he makes me admire him. He came to Brunford a few years ago utterly poor and unknown, and now he's become quite a personality. He's just one of those strong men that<br />
always wins his way. And he hates you, too, father." And then,<br />
without any apparent reason, the<br />
<br />
girl left the room. Meanwhile, Paul Stepaside was in a train that carried him northward. He was doing now what he had meant to have done long months before. He had constantly been making endeavours to discover the truth about<br />
the Douglas Graham of whom his mother had spoken, but he had done so without a plan, and in a kind of haphazard way, and this was not like Paul. He felt, too, as though<br />
he had a new motive in his life <img src="cid:subserviencyizAvAx"> . Mary Bolitho had said nothing that seemingly<br />
accounted for this, and yet he knew that her words had determined his action. A feeling of pride which he had never<br />
<br />
known before possessed him. He wanted to go to this girl with a name as good as her own. Money, he<br />
knew he could get, yes, and<br />
<br />
position, too. During the last few months he had listened to several fairly prominent Members of Parliament. He had analysed their speeches and estimated their powers, and he was not afraid of them. He was as big a man as any of them; yes, bigger, stronger, and with more will power. No, he was not afraid that he could not win position, but with this<br />
<br />
black cloud hanging over him he felt as<br />
<br />
though he were paralysed. And so, when a local train left Carlisle towards the station nearest to his mother's old home, it was with a fixed determination that he would not leave Scotland until<br />
he had disco
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