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Doctor Thorne

CHAPTER XIV
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If he does not marry money, he is lost.
Good heavens! the doctor's niece! A girl that nobody knows where she comes from!" "He's going with you to-morrow, you know," said the anxious mother.
"Yes; and that is so far well: if he will be led by me, the evil may be remedied before he returns; but it is very, very hard to lead young men.

Arabella, you must forbid that girl to come to Greshamsbury again on any pretext whatever.

The evil must be stopped at once." "But she is here so much as a matter of course." "Then she must be here as a matter of course no more: there has been folly, very great folly, in having her here.

Of course she would turn out to be a designing creature with such temptation before her; with such a prize within her reach, how could she help it ?" "I must say, aunt, she answered him very properly," said Augusta.
"Nonsense," said the countess; "before you, of course she did.
Arabella, the matter must not be left to the girl's propriety.

I never knew the propriety of a girl of that sort to be fit to be depended upon yet.


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