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Nancy

CHAPTER XXII
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But, indeed you would not.

We had no secrets to talk; we should not have minded you a bit." "I _did_ hear that they had arrived," he answers, still speaking ungraciously, "but even if I had not, I should not have come!" I look up in his face, and laugh.
"You _forgot_?
Ah, I told you you would!" "I did _not_ forget." Again I look up at him, this time in honest astonishment, awaiting the solution of his enigma.
"There is no particular use in making one's self _cheap_, is there ?" he says, with a bitter little laugh.

"What is the use of going to a place where you are told that _any one else_ will do as well ?" A pause.

I walk along in silent wonderment.

So he actually was happy again! We have left the church-yard.


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