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The Woodlanders

CHAPTER XXX
16/18

I wish I worked in the woods like Marty South.

I hate genteel life, and I want to be no better than she." "Why ?" said her amazed father.
"Because cultivation has only brought me inconveniences and troubles.
I say again, I wish you had never sent me to those fashionable schools you set your mind on.

It all arose out of that, father.

If I had stayed at home I should have married--" She closed up her mouth suddenly and was silent; and he saw that she was not far from crying.
Melbury was much grieved.

"What, and would you like to have grown up as we be here in Hintock--knowing no more, and with no more chance of seeing good life than we have here ?" "Yes.


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