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Mary Anerley

CHAPTER XXII
20/31

How much do you suppose my waistcoat cost?
Well, never mind, because you are not rich.

But I have got money enough for both of us to live well, and nobody can keep me out of it.

You know what a road is, I suppose--a good road leading to a town?
Have you ever seen one?
A brown place, with hedges on each side, made hard and smooth for horses to go upon, and wheels that make a rumble.

Well, if you will have me, and behave well to me, you shall sit up by yourself in a velvet dress, with a man before you and a man behind, and believe that you are flying." "But what would become of my father, and my mother, and my brother Maunder ?" "Oh, they must stop here, of course.

We shouldn't want them.


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