The young ensign made a piteous confession of the first debt he had been able to contract, for twenty pounds, with a promise that if his brother would help him out of this one scrape, he would never run into another.
Charlotte M. Yonge
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- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- The Young Step-Mother; Or, A Chronicle of Mistakes. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5843/pg5843-images.html
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