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Rhoda Fleming

CHAPTER IV
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"If she'd got to pay six men every Saturday night, she wouldn't complain o' the quiet.

But, there--you neither of you ever took to farming or to housekeeping; but any gentleman might be proud to have one of you for a wife.

I said so when you was girls.

And if, you've been dull, my dear, what's the good o' society?
Tea-cakes mayn't seem to cost money, nor a glass o' grog to neighbours; but once open the door to that sort o' thing and your reckoning goes.

And what I said to your poor mother's true.


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