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Mary Anerley

CHAPTER XXIV
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Why, Lord bless my heart, one would think that there was murder in a little bit of sweethearting.

All pretty girls do it; and the plain ones too.

Come and smoke a pipe, my good fellow, and don't terrify her." For Mary was sobbing in a corner by herself, without even her mother to come up and say a word.
"My daughter never does it," answered Stephen Anerley; "my daughter is not like the foolish girls and women.

My daughter knows her mind; and what she does she means to do.

Mary, lof, come to your father, and tell him that every one is lying of you.


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