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The Three Clerks

CHAPTER XX
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You mustn't suppose she's to lose her market that way.' 'God knows I should be sorry to injure her, Mrs.Davis.' 'I believe you would, because I take you for an honourable gentleman as will be as good as your word.

Now, there's Peppermint there.' 'What! that fellow in the parlour ?' 'And an honourable gentleman he is.

Not that I mean to compare him to you, Mr.Tudor, nor yet doesn't Norah; not by no means.
But there he is.

Well, he comes with the most honourablest proposals, and will make her Mrs.Peppermint to-morrow, if so be that she'll have it.' 'You don't mean to say that there has been anything between them ?' said Charley, who in spite of the intense desire which he had felt a few minutes since to get the lovely Norah altogether off his hands, now felt an acute pang of jealousy.' You don't mean to say that there has been anything between them ?' 'Nothing as you have any right to object to, Mr.Tudor.You may be sure I wouldn't allow of that, nor yet wouldn't Norah demean herself to it.' 'Then how did she get talking to him ?' 'She didn't get talking to him.

But he has eyes in his head, and you don't suppose but what he can see with them.


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