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The Woodlanders

CHAPTER XLI
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But it would only be for a day or two more, she thought, since go she must.
He replied, yearningly, "I--I don't like you to go away." "Oh, Giles," said she, "I know--I know! But--I am a woman, and you are a man.

I cannot speak more plainly.

'Whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are of good report'-- you know what is in my mind, because you know me so well." "Yes, Grace, yes.

I do not at all mean that the question between us has not been settled by the fact of your marriage turning out hopelessly unalterable.

I merely meant--well, a feeling no more." "In a week, at the outside, I should be discovered if I stayed here: and I think that by law he could compel me to return to him." "Yes; perhaps you are right.


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