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The Three Clerks

CHAPTER XLIII
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Oh! Harry, how are we to pay to you all this money ?' 'It is with Mrs.Woodward,' said he coldly, 'and Captain Cuttwater, not with me, that you should speak of that.

Mr.Tudor owes me nothing.' 'Oh, Harry, Harry,' said she, 'do not call him Mr.Tudor--pray, pray; now that we are going--now that we shall never wound your sight again! do not call him Mr.Tudor.
He has done wrong; I do not deny it; but which of us is there that has not ?' 'It was not on that account,' said he; 'I could forgive all that.' Gertrude understood him, and her cheeks and brow became tinged with red.

It was not from shame, nor yet wholly from a sense of anger, but mingled feelings filled her heart; feelings which she could in nowise explain.

'If you have forgiven him that'-- she would have said, had she thought it right to speak out her mind--'if you have forgiven him that, then there is nothing left for further forgiveness.' Gertrude had twice a better knowledge of the world than he had, twice a quicker perception of how things were going, and should be made to go.

She saw that it was useless to refer further to her husband.


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