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CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XIV.
CHAPTER XV.
CHAPTER XVI.
CHAPTER XVII.
CHAPTER XVIII.
CHAPTER XIX.
CHAPTER XX.
CHAPTER XXI.
CHAPTER XXII.
CHAPTER XXIII.
CHAPTER XXIV.
CHAPTER XXV.
CHAPTER XXVI.
CHAPTER XXVII.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
CHAPTER XXIX.
CHAPTER XXX.
CHAPTER XXXI.
CHAPTER XXXII.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
CHAPTER XXXV.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
"I remember Regulas Rothsay—or Rule, as we used to call him—when hewas a little bit of a fellow hardly up to my knee, running aboutbare-footed and doing odd jobs round the foundry. Ah! and now he iselected governor of this State by the biggest majority ever heard of,and engaged to be married to the finest young lady in the country, withthe full consent of all her proud relations. To be married to-day and tobe inaugurated to-morrow, and he only thirty-two years old this blessedseventh of June!"
The speaker, a hale man of