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Rhoda Fleming

CHAPTER VI
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A week after Harry's burial his widow was asked in marriage by his colonel.

Captains, and a giddy subaltern likewise, disputed claims to possess her.

She, however, decided to arrest further bloodshed by quitting the regiment.

She always said that she left India to save her complexion; "and people don't know how very candid I am," she added, for the colonel above-mentioned was wealthy,--a man expectant of a title, and a good match, and she was laughed at when she thus assigned trivial reasons for momentous resolutions.

It is a luxury to be candid; and perfect candour can do more for us than a dark disguise.
Mrs.Lovell's complexion was worth saving from the ravages of an Indian climate, and the persecution of claimants to her hand.


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