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...tender age by shooting the rapids together off Little Dent, Vancouver Island. The rest of 'the book takes Roderick and Mary through innumerable misfortunes, chiefly financial. Most of them are due to his elder brother's business acumen unfortunately not equalled by his judgment. The name of Norquay is, in danger throughout the book, but Roderick, last of the line, manages to save it after a hard fight. But he has to sell the old Norquay homestead to do it, which it took five generations of doughty Norquays to put together. Andy Hall, one of those old philosophers without whom...
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