[Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookDoctor Thorne CHAPTER XIII 8/23
"Yes; she is good enough." "She must be grown up by now.
None of your light skirts, eh ?" "She is a good girl," said the doctor somewhat loudly and sternly.
He could hardly trust himself to say much on this point. "Mary was a good girl, a very good girl, till"-- and Sir Roger raised himself up in his bed with his fist clenched, as though he were again about to strike that fatal blow at the farm-yard gate.
"But come, it's no good thinking of that; you behaved well and manly, always. And so poor Mary's child is alive; at least, you say so." "I say so, and you may believe it.
Why should I deceive you ?" "No, no; I don't see why.
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