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The Newcomes

CHAPTER X
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"I am so glad you like the house, and Clive, and Mrs.Honeyman." "Like her! the dear little old woman.

I feel as if she had been my friend all my life! I feel quite drawn towards her.

What a wonderful coincidence that Dr.Goodenough should direct us to this very house! I have written to your father about it.

And to think that I should have written to Clive at this very house, and quite forgotten Mrs.Honeyman's name--and such an odd name too.

I forget everything, everything! You know I forgot your Aunt Louisa's husband's name; and when I was godmother to her baby, and the clergyman said, 'What is the infant's name ?' I said, 'Really I forget.' And so I did.


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