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He Knew He Was Right

CHAPTER XVI
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I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.

I never in my life saw a man whom I wished even to make my intimate friend.

I should think any man an idiot who began to make soft speeches to me, and I should tell him so." "Ah; you might find it different when he went on with it." "But I think," said Priscilla, "that when a woman is married there is nothing to which she should not submit on behalf of her husband." "You mean that for me." "Of course I mean it for you.

How should I not be thinking of you, living as you are under the same roof with us?
And I am thinking of Louey." Louey was the baby.

"What are you to do when after a year or two his father shall send for him to have him under his own care ?" "Nothing shall separate me from my child," said Mrs.Trevelyan eagerly.
"That is easily said; but I suppose the power of doing as he pleased would be with him." "Why should it be with him?
I do not at all know that it would be with him.


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