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Doctor Thorne

CHAPTER XVIII
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I wonder they ain't jealous." "Oh! they're such good people.

Bless me, they'd never be jealous." "You are so much younger than they are, that I suppose she thinks you want more of her care." "Yes; that's it.

You see she's fond of having a baby to nurse." "Tell me, Mr Gresham, what was it she was saying to you last night?
I know we had been misbehaving ourselves dreadfully.

It was all your fault; you would make me laugh so." "That's just what I said to her." "She was talking about me, then ?" "How on earth should she talk of any one else as long as you are here?
Don't you know that all the world is talking about you ?" "Is it ?--dear me, how kind! But I don't care a straw about any world just at present but Lady de Courcy's world.

What did she say ?" "She said you were very beautiful--" "Did she ?--how good of her!" "No; I forgot.


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