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The Gilded Age
Part 5.

CHAPTER XLI
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I feel that I can trust you.
You wouldn't deceive me, Harry ?" throwing into her eyes a look of trust and tenderness that melted away all his petulance and distrust.

"What do they say ?" "Some say that you've lost your head about him; others that you don't care any more for him than you do for a dozen others, but that he is completely fascinated with you and about to desert his wife; and others say it is nonsense to suppose you would entangle yourself with a married man, and that your intimacy only arises from the matter of the cotton, claims, for which he wants your influence with Dilworthy.

But you know everybody is talked about more or less in Washington.

I shouldn't care; but I wish you wouldn't have so much to do with Selby, Laura," continued Harry, fancying that he was now upon such terms that his, advice, would be heeded.
"And you believed these slanders ?" "I don't believe anything against you, Laura, but Col.

Selby does not mean you any good.


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