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Eve’s Ransom

CHAPTER XVI
12/19

Out of my pound a week I saved several shillings--just because it was the habit of my whole life to pinch and pare and deny myself.

I was obliged to dress decently, and that came out of my food.

It's certain I must have a very good constitution to have gone through all that and be as well as I am to-day." "It will never come again," said Hilliard.
"How can I be sure of that?
I told you once before that I'm often in dread of the future.

It would be ever so much worse, after knowing what it means to enjoy one's life.

How do people feel who are quite sure they can never want as long as they live?
I have tried to imagine it, but I can't; it would be too wonderful." "You may know it some day." Eve reflected.
"It was Patty Ringrose," she continued, "who taught me to take life more easily.


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