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Diana of the Crossways

CHAPTER XIII
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As an intermediary, permit me to state that you are taking superfluous trouble.

The case must proceed.

It is final.

She is at liberty, in the meantime, to draw on my bankers for the provision she may need, at the rate of five hundred pounds per annum." He spoke of "the lady now bearing my name." He was within an inch of saying "dishonouring." I swear I heard the "dis," and he caught himself up.

He "again declined any attempt towards reconciliation." It could "only be founded on evasion of the truth to be made patent on the day of trial." Half his talk was lawyers' lingo.
The fellow's teeth looked like frost.


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