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Marcella

CHAPTER VI
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The Hardens say she has done everything she could--of course it isn't much--for that miserable village in the time she has been there.

Oh! by the way, she is a Socialist.

She thinks that all we landowners should be done away with." Aldous looked round at his grandfather, so soon probably to be one of the lights of a Tory Cabinet, and laughed.

So, to his relief, did Lord Maxwell.
"Well, don't let her fall into young Wharton's clutches, Aldous, or he will be setting her to canvas.

So, she is beautiful and she is clever--and _good_, my boy?
If she comes here, she will have to fill your mother's and your grandmother's place." Aldous tried to reply once or twice, but failed.
"If I did not feel that she were everything in herself to be loved and respected"-- he said at last with some formality--"I should not long, as I do, to bring you and her together." Silence fell again.


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