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  • When he came forward after his father's death, we believed in his pledges and promises, as a retrencher and reformer, and we stuck by him.

    The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • When he came forward after his father’s death, we believed in his pledges and promises, as a retrencher and reformer, and we stuck by him.

    The Newcomes 2006

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