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Robert Elsmere

CHAPTER VIII
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She wants your sister, clearly, to advise her.
By the way,' and his voice changed, 'the vicar told me last night that Miss Rose is going to Manchester for the winter to study.

He heard it from Miss Agnes, I think.

The news interested me greatly after our conversation.' He looked at her with the most winning interrogative eyes.

His whole manner implied that everything which touched and concerned her touched and concerned him; and, moreover, that she had given him in some sort a right to share her thoughts and difficulties.

Catherine struggled with herself.
'I trust it may answer,' she said, in a low voice.
But she would say no more, and he felt rebuffed.


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