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The Emancipated

CHAPTER XVI
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I hope he has had the good sense to wait quietly for news.
"Cecily sends her love to you--though she half fears that you will reject it.

I cannot see why you should.

We have done the only sensible thing, and of course in a month or two it will be just the same, to everybody concerned, as if we had been married in the most foolish way that respectability can contrive.

Let us hear from you very soon, dear sister.

We talk much of you, and hope to have many a bright day with you yet--more genuinely happy than that we spent in tracking out old Tiberius." Eleanor looked up, and again was struck with the singular light in her cousin's eyes.
"Well, it only tells us what we anticipated.


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