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Mary Anerley

CHAPTER V
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Philippa, would you make Pet a beggar?
And his turtle in bed, before the sun is on the window, and his sturgeon jelly when he gets out of bed! There never was any one, by a good Providence, less sent into the world to be a beggar." Mrs.Carnaby, having discharged her meaning, began to be overcome by it.
She sat down, in fear of hysteria, but with her mind made up to stop it; while the gallant Jellicorse was swept away by her eloquence, mixed with professional views.

But it came home to him, from experience with his wife, that the less he said the wiser.

But while he moved about, and almost danced, in his strong desire to be useful, there was another who sat quite still, and meant to have the final say.
"From some confusion of ideas, I suppose, or possibly through my own fault," Philippa Yordas said, with less contempt in her voice than in her mind, "it seems that I can not make my meaning clear, even to my own sister.

I said that we first must do the right, and scorn all legal subtleties.

That we must maintain unselfish justice, and high sense of honor.


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