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The Last Hope

CHAPTER IX
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He may die of something else in the end, but the probability is that he must reckon at last with that healed sore.

The friendship may perish from some other cause--a marriage, or success in life, one of the two great severers--but that salved quarrel is more than likely to recur and kill at last.
These two had never fallen out.

And it was the woman who, contrary to custom, fended the quarrel now.
"Oh! because I have been here three nights in succession, I suppose, and did not find you here.

I was disappointed." "But you found Uncle Septimus in his study.

I could hear you talking there until quite late." "Of course I was very glad to see him and talk with him.


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