[Mary Marston by George MacDonald]@TWC D-Link bookMary Marston CHAPTER XIII 28/31
Give it up ?" "Quite." "The best thing you could do.
I can't always make myself out.
But, then, I always give it up directly, and so it does me no harm.
But it's ten times worse to worry your poor little heart to rags about such a man as that; he's not worth a thought from a grand creature like you. Where's the use, besides? Would you stand staring at your medicine a whole day before the time for taking it comes? I wouldn't have my right leg cut off because that is the side my dog walks on, and dogs go mad! Slip, cup, and lip--don't you know? The man may be underground long before the wedding-day: he's anything but sound, they tell me.
But it would be far better soon after it, of course.
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