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Father Stafford

CHAPTER XIV
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"I didn't 'treat' Kate.

Kate 'treated' me." "Poor fellow!" He had sat down in a low chair close to hers, and she bent down and kissed him on the forehead.
"At least, I don't think you'll like any one better than you like me, and I must be content with that." "I have worshiped you for years.

Was ever beauty so exacting ?" "With lucid intervals ?" "Never a moment.

A sense of duty once led me astray--dynastic considerations--a suitable cousin." "Yes; and I suppose a moonlight night." "_Pereant quae ante te!_ You know a little Latin ?" "I think I'd better not just now." "You may want it for yourself, you know, with a change of gender.

But we'll not bandy recriminations." "I wasn't joking." "Not when you began; but with me all your troubles shall end in jokes, and every tear in a smile.


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