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Smith and the Pharaohs, and Other Tales

CHAPTER VII
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They added, however, that if she took certain precautions, and above all went away from Eastwich, there was every reason to hope that she would quite recover her health.
In the end Barbara did not go away.

At the time Anthony was being instructed by a tutor who resided at the Hall to prepare him for the University and ultimately for the Army.

Needless to say, she was employed continually in trying to compose the differences between him and this tutor.

How then could she go away and leave that poor gentleman and her old mother, who when she was not staying with one of her other married daughters now made her home at the Hall?
Thus she argued to herself, but the truth was that she did not wish to go.

Her dearest associations were in the churchyard yonder, the churchyard where she hoped ere long she would be laid.


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