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Mary Anerley

CHAPTER XXIII
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Pray exert your strength of mind, and cast such thoughts away from you--or perhaps it will be a smuggler.

And yet if it were, how much better it would pay!" "Then I hope it will, Charles; I heartily hope it will be.

It would serve you quite right to be snaring your own son, after snaring a poor youth through his sweetheart." "Well, well, time will show.

Put me up the flat bottle, Tilly, and the knuckle of pork that was left last night.

Goodness knows when I shall be back; and I never like to rack my mind upon an empty stomach." The revenue officer had far to go, and was wise in providing provender.
And the weather being on the fall toward the equinox, and the tides running strong and uncertain, he had made up his mind to fare inland, instead of attempting the watery ways.


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