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Mary Anerley

CHAPTER XXIII
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"You know long ago what my opinion of you is, and yet you seem to take no notice.

Now I must be off, as you know, to-night; not for any reason of my own, as I told you yesterday, but to carry out a contract.

I may not see you for many months again; and you may fall in love with a Preventive man." "I never fall in love with anybody.

Why should I go from one extreme to the other?
Captain Carroway has seven children, as well as a very active wife." "I am not afraid of Carroway, in love or in war.

He is an honest fellow, with no more brains than this ash-tree over us.


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