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Life’s Little Ironies

CHAPTER V
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We shall tell.' 'What, and ruin her--kill her?
Disgrace her children, and pull down the whole auspicious house of Fellmer about our ears?
No! May I--drown where he was drowned before I do it! Never, never.

Surely you can say the same, Cornelius!' Cornelius seemed fortified, and no more was said.

For a long time after that day he did not see Joshua, and before the next year was out a son and heir was born to the Fellmers.

The villagers rang the three bells every evening for a week and more, and were made merry by Mr.Fellmer's ale; and when the christening came on Joshua paid Narrobourne another visit.
Among all the people who assembled on that day the brother clergymen were the least interested.

Their minds were haunted by a spirit in kerseymere in the evening they walked together in the fields.
'She's all right,' said Joshua.


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