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I can walk as far as the rectory.
For your father's sake, the rector will make us welcome .-- Charlotte, my bonnet and cloak!" "Mother! I think such threats very uncalled for.
What will people say? And how can poor Julius defend himself against two ladies? I call it taking advantage of us." "'Taking advantage ?' Oh, no! Oh, no!--Charlotte, my dear, give me my cloak." The little lady was not to be either frightened or entreated; and she deigned Julius--who had been hastily summoned by Sophia--no answer, either to his arguments or his apologies. "It is enough," she cried, with a slight quiver in her voice, "it is enough! You turn me out of the home he gave me.
Do you think that the dead see not? know not? You will find out, you will find out." And so, leaning upon Charlotte's arm, she walked slowly down the stairway, and into the dripping, soaking, gloomy afternoon.
It was indeed wretched weather.
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