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The Three Clerks

CHAPTER XXXVII
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My small property is in the funds, and I can get the amount at a moment's notice.

I do not think there will be any necessity to raise more money than that.

At any rate, whatever happens, you must not touch your own income; think of Katie.' 'But, Harry--dear, good, generous Harry--you are so good, so generous! But, Harry, we need not talk of that now.

You will see him, though, won't you ?' 'It will do no good,' said Harry; 'we have no mutual trust in each other.' 'Do not be unforgiving, Harry, now that he requires forgiveness.' 'If he does require forgiveness, Mrs.Woodward, if it shall turn out that he has been guilty, God knows that I will forgive him.

I trust this may not be the case; and it would be useless for me to thrust myself upon him now, when a few days may replace us again in our present relations to each other.' 'I don't understand you, Harry; why should there always be a quarrel between two brothers, between the husbands of two sisters?
I know you mean to be kind, I know you are most kind, most generous; but why should you be so stern ?' 'What I mean is this--if I find him in adversity, I shall be ready to offer him my hand; it will then be for him to say whether he will take it.


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