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Doctor Thorne

CHAPTER IV
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No, Trichy; joking apart, do not think of it.

Even if Augusta wished it I should refuse.

I should be obliged to refuse.

I, too, suffer from pride; a pride quite as unpardonable as that of others: I could not stand with your four lady-cousins behind your sister at the altar.

In such a galaxy they would be the stars and I--" "Why, Mary, all the world knows that you are prettier than any of them!" "I am all the world's very humble servant.


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