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Doctor Thorne

CHAPTER XXVIII
20/23

You need not look for money.

But you should think of some one more nearly of your own temperament.

I am quite sure that my niece would refuse you." These last words the doctor uttered with much emphasis.

His intention was to make the baronet understand that the matter was quite hopeless, and to induce him if possible to drop it on the spot.

But he did not know Sir Louis; he ranked him too low in the scale of human beings, and gave him no credit for any strength of character.
Sir Louis in his way did love Mary Thorne; and could not bring himself to believe that Mary did not, or at any rate, would not soon return his passion.


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