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The Unclassed

CHAPTER XV
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He and his wife established themselves in the lodgings which he was already occupying.

And the new life began.
Waymark had made Harriet's acquaintance a couple of weeks before; Julian had brought her with him one Sunday to his friend's room.

She was then living alone, having quitted Mrs.Ogle the day after that decisive call upon Julian.

There was really no need for her to have done so, Mrs.Ogle's part in the comedy being an imaginary one of Harriet's devising.

But Julian was led entirely by his cousin, and, as she knew quite well, there was not the least danger of his going on his own account to the shop in Gray's Inn Road; he dreaded the thought of such an interview.
Waymark was not charmed with Miss Smales; the more he thought of this marriage, the more it amazed him; for, of course, he deemed it wholly of his friend's bringing about.
The marriage affected their intercourse.


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