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Wessex Tales

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She heard him, and sprang up.
'Ell, how silly this is!' he said indignantly.

'Running away from home--I never heard such a thing! Of course I am not jealous of this unfortunate man; but it is too ridiculous that you, a married woman with three children and a fourth coming, should go losing your head like this over a dead lover!.

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Do you know you were locked in?
You might not have been able to get out all night.' She did not answer.
'I hope it didn't go far between you and him, for your own sake.' 'Don't insult me, Will.' 'Mind, I won't have any more of this sort of thing; do you hear ?' 'Very well,' she said.
He drew her arm within his own, and conducted her out of the Cemetery.


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