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The Claverings

CHAPTER XVIII
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Remember that with her you needn't stand on your p's and q's, as you would with another woman.

She knows what she is about, and will understand what she has to get as well as what she is expected to give.

All I can say is, that if she accepts you, Hermy will consent that she shall go to Clavering as much as she pleases till the marriage takes place.

It couldn't be done, I suppose, till after a year; and in that case she shall be married at Clavering." Here was a prospect for Julia Brabazon--to be led to the same altar, at which she had married Lord Ongar, by Archie Clavering, twelve month's after her first husband's death, and little more than two years after her first wedding! The peculiarity of the position did not quite make itself apparent either to Hugh or to Archie; but there was one point which did suggest itself to the younger brother at that moment.
"I don't suppose there was anything really wrong, eh ?" "Can't say, I'm sure," said Sir Hugh.
"Because I shouldn't like--" "If I were you I wouldn't trouble myself about that.

Judge not, that you be not judged." "Yes, that's true, to be sure," said Archie; and on that point he went forth satisfied..


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