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The Claverings

CHAPTER V
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When a woman gets her name into such a mess as that, she should keep in the background." "I think you are unjust to her, Hugh." "Of course you do.

You don't suppose that I expect anything else.

But if you mean to tell me that there would have been all this row if she had been decently prudent, I tell you that you're mistaken." "Only think what a man he was." She knew that when she took him, and should have borne with him while he lasted.

A woman isn't to have seven thousand a year for nothing." "But you forget that not a syllable has been proved against her, or been attempted to be proved.

She has never left him, and now she has been with him in his last moments.


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