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Mary Anerley

CHAPTER XIX
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And a man is always stronger than a woman; at any rate in our family." "Stronger than such as you, Eliza.

But let him only rebel against me, and he will find himself an outcast.

And to prove that, I have brought you here." Mistress Yordas turned round, and looked in a well-known manner at her sister, whose beautiful eyes filled with tears, and fell.
"Philippa," she said, with a breath like a sob, "sometimes you look harder than poor dear papa, in his very worst moments, used to look.

I am sure that I do not at all deserve it.

All that I pray for is peace and comfort; and little do I get of either." "And you will get less, as long as you pray for them, instead of doing something better.


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