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Peg Woffington

CHAPTER XIII
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She made her lie down on the bed, and placed pillows high for her like a mother, and leaned over her as she lay, and pressed her lips gently to her forehead.
Her fertile brain had already digested a plan, but she had resolved that this pure and candid soul should take no lessons of deceit.

"Lie there," said she, "till I open the door: then join us.

Do you know what I am going to do?
I am not going to restore you your husband's heart, but to show you it never really left you.

You read faces; well, I read circumstances.

Matters are not as you thought," said she, with all a woman's tact.


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