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The Claverings

CHAPTER IV
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Oh, dear, I remember how unhappy that made me once, and I was so afraid that Hugh would suspect it.

She would never have done for you; would she, Harry ?" "She did a great deal better for herself." said Harry.
"If you mean that ironically, you shouldn't say it now.

If he dies, she will be well off, of course, and people will in time forget what has been said--that is, if she will live quietly.

The worst of it is that she fears nothing." "But you speak as though you thought she had been--been--" "I think she was probably imprudent, but I believe nothing worse than that.

But who can say what is absolutely wrong, and what only imprudent?
I think she was too proud to go really astray.


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