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The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn

CHAPTER IX
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He never knew it till now I am certain; and of course, you know, he naturally won't have me go and live in the house with a bad woman." "Does he think then, or do you think," replied George, with virtuous indignation, "that I would have thought of taking you there?
No, I'd sooner have taken you to America!" "Well, so I believe, George." "This won't make any difference in you, Mary?
No, I needn't ask it, you wouldn't have come here to meet me to-night if that had been the case." "It ought to make a difference, George," she replied; "I am afraid I oughtn't to come out here and see you, when my father don't approve of it." "But you will come, my little darling, for all that;" he said.

"Not here though--the devil only knows who may be loitering round here.

Half a dozen pair of lovers a night perhaps--no, meet me up in the croft of a night.

I am often in at Gosford's of an evening, and I can see your window from there, you put a candle in the right-hand corner when you want to see me, and I'll be down in a very few minutes.

I shall come every evening and watch." "Indeed," she said, "I won't do anything of the sort; at least, unless I have something very particular to say.


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