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The Claverings

CHAPTER VI
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"Got to like! People shouldn't get to like people unless there's some reason for it." "What on earth did he intend to live on ?" demanded the Rector.
"Edward had nothing to live on, when you first allowed him to come here," said Mary.
"But Edward had prospects, and Saul, as far as I know, has none.

He had given no one the slightest notice.

If the man in the moon had come to Fanny I don't suppose she would have been more surprised." "Not half so much, papa." Then it was that Mrs.Clavering had declared that she was not surprised--that she had suspected it, and had almost made Fanny angry by saying so.

When Harry came hack two days afterward, the family news was imparted to him, and he immediately ranged himself on his father's side.
"Upon my word I think that he ought to be forbidden the house," said Harry.

"He has forgotten himself in making such a proposition." "That's nonsense, Harry," said his mother.


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