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Poor Miss Finch

CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIRST
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Oscar drew me aside out of hearing, while her attention was diverted from him.
"I saw you," he said.

"_You_ were horrified at the first sight of me.
_You_ were relieved when you found that her touch told her nothing.

Help me to keep her from suspecting it, for two months more--and you will be the best friend that ever man had." "Two months ?" I repeated.
"Yes.

If there is no return of the fits in two months, the doctor will consider my recovery complete.

Lucilla and I may be married at the end of the time." "My friend Oscar, are you contemplating a fraud on Lucilla ?" "What do you mean ?" "Come! come! you know what I mean! Is it honorable first to entrap her into marrying you--and then to confess to her the color of your face ?" He sighed bitterly.
"I shall fill her with horror of me, if I confess it.


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