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The Unclassed

CHAPTER XI
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I will send it you to-morrow." "Why not bring it ?" "Better not.

I have a good deal of an unpleasant quality which people call pride, and I don't care to make myself uncomfortable unnecessarily." "You can't have more pride than I have.

Look." She held out her hands.
"Will you be my friend, really my friend?
You understand me ?" "I think I understand, but I doubt whether it is possible." "Everything is possible.

Will you shake hands with me, and, when you come to see me again, let us meet as if I were a modest girl, and you had got to know me in a respectable house, and not in the street at midnight ?" "You really wish it?
You are not joking ?" "I am in sober earnest, and I wish it.

You won't refuse ?" "If I did I should refuse a great happiness." He took her hand and again released it.
"And now look at the time," said she, pointing to a clock on the mantelpiece.


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