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Sandra Belloni

CHAPTER XXI
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She thought: "What can he want but my love ?" And thus she satisfied her own hungry questioning by seeming to supply an answer to his.
The ladies of Brookfield by no means encouraged Emilia to refuse the generous offer of Mr.Pericles.They thought, too, that she might--might she?
Oh! certainly she might go to Italy under his protection.

"Would you let one of your blood ?" asked Wilfrid brutally.

With some cunning he led them to admit that Emilia's parents should rightly be consulted in such a case.
One day Mr.Pericles said to the ladies: "I shall give a fete: a party monstre.

In ze air: on grass.

I beg you to invite friends of yours." Before the excogitation of this splendid resolve, he had been observed to wear for some period a conspiratorial aspect.


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