[The Unclassed by George Gissing]@TWC D-Link bookThe Unclassed CHAPTER XX 19/21
'And do you know,' she asked then, without looking at me, 'what sort of a girl I am ?' Well, all at once there came something into my head that I'd never thought of before, and I was staggered for a moment; I couldn't say anything.
But I got over it.
'I don't want to know anything,' I said. 'All I know is, that I like you better than I ever shall any one else, and I want you to promise to be my wife, some day.' 'Then you must let me tell you all my story first,' she said.
'I won't answer till you know everything.' And so she told me what it seems you know.
Well, if I thought much of her before, I thought a thousand times as much after that! And do you know what? I believe it was on my account that she want and took that place in the shop." "Precisely," said Waymark. "You think so ?" cried the other, delighted. "I guessed as much when she met me that day and said I might let you know where she was." "Ha!" exclaimed O'Gree, with a long breath. "And so the matter is settled ?" "All but the most important part of it.
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