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A Changed Man and Other Tales

CHAPTER I
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I wish you hadn't a farthing in the world but what I could earn for you!' 'I don't altogether wish that,' she murmured.
'I wish it, because it would have made what I was going to propose much easier to do than it is now.

Indeed I will not propose it, although I came on purpose, after what you have said in your frankness.' 'Nonsense, Nic.

Come, tell me.

How can you be so touchy ?' 'Look at this then, Christine dear.' He drew from his breast-pocket a sheet of paper and unfolded it, when it was observable that a seal dangled from the bottom.
'What is it ?' She held the paper sideways, so that what there was of window-light fell on its surface.

'I can only read the Old English letters--why--our names! Surely it is not a marriage-licence ?' 'It is.' She trembled.


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