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Mary Anerley

CHAPTER XXIII
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This picture was not at all deterrent; so daring are young men, and so selfish.
"Nothing of that sort should ever come to pass," cried Robin, with the gaze of the head of a household, "supposing only that my wife was you.
I would be home regularly every night before the kitchen clock struck eight.

I would always come home with an appetite, and kiss you, and do both my feet upon the scraper.

I would ask how the baby was, and carry him about, and go 'one, two, three,' as the nurses do, I would quite leave the government to put on taxes, and pay them--if I could--without a word of grumble.

I would keep every rope about the house in order, as only a sailor knows how to do, and fettle my own mending, and carry out my orders, and never meddle with the kitchen, at least unless my opinion was sought for concerning any little thing that might happen to be meant for me." "Well," exclaimed Mary, "you quite take my breath away.

I had no idea that you were so clever.


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