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The Belton Estate

CHAPTER VII
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"Who's right now, I wonder ?" he said, with an air of triumph.

And when he came to her for his guerdon at Taunton, he was evidently cross in not having it increased because of the accident.
That hour at the Taunton station was terrible to her.

I know of no hours more terrible than those so passed.

The minutes will not go away, and utterly fail in making good their claim to be called winged.

A man walks up and down the platform, and in that way obtains something of the advantage of exercise; but a woman finds herself bound to sit still within the dreary dulness of the waiting-room.
There are, perhaps, people who under such circumstances can read, but they are few in number.


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