[Peg Woffington by Charles Reade]@TWC D-Link bookPeg Woffington CHAPTER X 9/19
Could I wait two hours there? So I came on by myself; you wicked old man, you let me talk, and don't tell me how he is." "Master is main well, ma'am, and thank you," said old Burdock, confused and uneasy. "But is he happy? Of course he is.
Are we not to meet to-day after six months? Ah! but never mind, they _are_ gone by." "Lord bless her!" thought the faithful old fellow.
"If sitting down and crying could help her, I wouldn't be long." By this time they were in the banqueting-room and at the preparations there Mabel gave a start; she then colored.
"Oh, he has invited his friends to make acquaintance.
I had rather we had been alone all this day and to-morrow.
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