[Gladys, the Reaper by Anne Beale]@TWC D-Link bookGladys, the Reaper CHAPTER XXII 12/16
But the recollection of old times always affects me, and your love affects me still more.
I have not told you this because I regret not being married to Mr Jones--it was mercifully ordained that I should not marry any one. What would my dear father have done if I had? but simply to show you how the very people we think the least of frequently become our best friends; the "weak things of the earth confounding those that are mighty," in scripture phrase.' 'Oh, Serena! do you hear ?' interrupted Freda, 'there is Miss Nugent in the hall.
Of all the bores! we never can be free from those people.
Yes it is; I hear her _lithp_;' and Miss Nugent was announced. She had walked over, she said, to ask how they all were after the delightful Harvest Home, and to bring an invitation from her mamma to dinner the following Tuesday. 'I do hope you will come, Freda, and you, Mith Hall, and bring that charming Colonel Vaughan with you.
He ith tho nithe.
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