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Mary Anerley

CHAPTER XXIII
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This, however, was the large idea ripening in the breast of Carroway.
"To-night I shall have him," he said to his wife, who was inditing of softer things, her eighth confinement, and the shilling she had laid that it would be a boy this time.

"The weather is stormy, yet the fellow makes love between the showers in a barefaced way.

That old fool of a tanner knows it, and has no more right feeling than if he were a boy.
Aha, my Robin, fine robin as you are, I shall catch you piping with your Jenny Wren tonight!" The lieutenant shared the popular ignorance of simplest natural history.
"Charles, you never should have told me of it.

Where is your feeling for the days gone by?
And as for his coming between the showers, what should I have thought of you if you had made a point of bringing your umbrella?
My dear, it is wrong.

And I beg you, for my sake, not to catch him with his true love, but only with his tubs." "Matilda, your mind is weakened by the coming trial of your nerves.


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