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Mary Anerley

CHAPTER XXI
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But I have got a quantity of work to do.

You can see that by my fingers." The girl made a courtesy, and took the pitcher from him, because he was knocking it against his legs; but he could not be angry when he looked into her eyes, though the habit of his temper made him try to fume.
"Do you know what I think ?" she said, fixing bright hazel eyes upon him; "I think that you are very passionate sometimes." "Well, if I am, it is my own business.

Who told you anything about it?
Whoever it was shall pay out for it." "Nobody told me, Sir.

You must remember that I never even heard of your name before." "Oh, come, I can't quite take down that.

Everybody knows me for fifty miles or more; and I don't care what they think of me." "You may please yourself about believing me," she answered, without concern about it.


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