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Old Saint Paul’s

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I have been greatly deceived." "True," chuckled Pillichody, as soon as the grocer was out of hearing; "but not by your apprentice, Mr.Bloundel.I will go and inform Parravicin and Rochester that I have discovered the girl.

The knight must mind what he is about, or Leonard Holt will prove too much for him.
Either I am greatly out, or the apprentice is already master of Nizza's heart." To return to Amabel.

As soon as she was alone with her mother, she threw herself on her knees before her, and, imploring her forgiveness, hastily related all that had occurred.
"But for Leonard Holt," she said, "I should have been duped into a false marriage with the earl, and my peace of mind would have been for ever destroyed.

As it is, I shall never be easy till he is restored to my father's favour.

To have done wrong myself is reprehensible enough; but that another should suffer for my fault is utterly inexcusable." "I lament that your father should be deceived," rejoined Mrs.Bloundel, "and I lament still more that Leonard Holt should be so unjustly treated.


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