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The Girl at Cobhurst

CHAPTER XV
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I want her here; don't you ?" "I certainly do, but you forget Mr.Ames." "I do, and I intend to forget him," she replied, "and so does Dora." The doctor shook his head.

"I do not like it," he said; "young Haverley may be all very well,--I have a high opinion of him, already, but he is not the man for Dora.

If he had any money at all, it would be different, but he has not.

Now she would not be content to live at Cobhurst as it is, and he ought not to be content to have her do everything to make it what she would have it." "Doctor," said Miss Panney, "if there is anything about all this in your medicine books, perhaps you know more than I do, and you can go on and talk; but you know there is not, and you know, too, that I was a very sensible middle-aged woman when you were toddling around in frocks and running against people.

I believe you are trying to run against somebody now.


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