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Robert Elsmere

CHAPTER II
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I told him it was a preposterous sum, but he wouldn't bargain.

"I shall bring my wife and children here in the holidays," he said, "and the money will set George up in California." So he paid through the nose, and got possession of the old house, in which I should think he had passed about as miserable a childhood as it was possible to pass.

There's no accounting for tastes.' 'And then the next summer they all came down,' interrupted Mrs.
Thornburgh.

She disliked a long story as she disliked being read aloud to.

'Catherine was fifteen, not a bit like a child.


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