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Silas Marner

CHAPTER III
10/22

"You've a very good chance.

I'd advise you to creep up her sleeve again: it 'ud be saving time, if Molly should happen to take a drop too much laudanum some day, and make a widower of you.

Miss Nancy wouldn't mind being a second, if she didn't know it.

And you've got a good-natured brother, who'll keep your secret well, because you'll be so very obliging to him." "I'll tell you what it is," said Godfrey, quivering, and pale again, "my patience is pretty near at an end.

If you'd a little more sharpness in you, you might know that you may urge a man a bit too far, and make one leap as easy as another.


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