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Mary Anerley

CHAPTER X
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It was the exact look--or so she always said--of her dead angel, when she denied him something, for the sake of his poor dear stomach.

With an outburst of tears, she flew straight to the little one, snatched him in her arms, and tried to cover him with kisses.
The child, however, in a lordly manner, did not seem to like it.

He drew away his red lips, and gathered up his nose, and passion flew out of his beautiful eyes, higher passion than that of any Cockscroft.

And he tried to say something which no one could make out.

And women of high consideration, looking on, were wicked enough to be pleased at this, and say that he must be a young lord, and they had quite foreseen it.


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