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Uncle Silas

CHAPTER VII
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But truth, like murder, will out some day.

Tom Williams, the groom, had seen her, when alone with him, and pretending to look at his stock, with her face almost buried in his silks and Welsh linseys, talking as fast as she could all the time, and slipping _money_, he did suppose, under a piece of stuff in his box.
In the mean time, I and Madame were walking over the wide, peaty sheep-walks that lie between Knowl and Church Scarsdale.

Since our visit to the mausoleum in the wood, she had not worried me so much as before.

She had been, indeed, more than usually thoughtful, very little talkative, and troubled me hardly at all about French and other accomplishments.

A walk was a part of our daily routine.


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