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Sylvia’s Lovers
Vol. II

CHAPTER XXV
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No need to tell her who was _she_.

No need to put into words the fact, told plainer than words could have spoken it, that his heart was bound up in Sylvia.
Hester's face, instead of responding to his look, contracted a little, and, for the life of her, she could not have helped saying,-- 'Why don't yo' go yourself, Philip ?' 'I can't, I can't,' said he, impatiently.

'I'd give the world to go, for I might be able to comfort her; but there's lawyers to see, and iver so much to do, and they've niver a man friend but me to do it all.

You'll tell her,' said Philip, insinuatingly, as if a fresh thought had struck him, 'as how I would ha' come.

I would fain ha' come for 'em, myself, but I couldn't, because of th' lawyer,--mind yo' say because of th' lawyer.


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