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| | ISRAEL POTTER: His 50 Years of Exile |
 | | Israel soon discovered, that though rejoiced to welcome the return of the prodigal son—so some called him—his father still remained inflexibly determined against the match, and still inexplicably countermined his wooing. |
 | | Israel glanced inquiringly upon the Squire; then upon his companions; and meeting the expressive, enthusiastic, candid countenance of Home Tooke—then in the first honest ardor of his political career—turned to the Squire, and said, "Sir, I believe what you have said. |
 | | CHAPTER X. ABOUT half-past ten o'clock, as they were thus conversing, Israel's acquaintance, the pretty chambermaid, rapped at the door, saying, with a titter, that a very rude gentleman in the passage of the court, desired to see Doctor Franklin. |
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