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A Lost Leader

CHAPTER II
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Rochester and Mellors both believe in him.
There is no limit to what he might not ask." "He has told me a dozen times," she said, "that he never means to sit in Parliament again." "There is no reason why he should not change his mind," Borrowdean answered.

"Between us, I think that we could induce him." "Perhaps," she answered.

"Only I do not mean to try." "I wish I could make you understand," he said impatiently, "that I am in deadly earnest." "You threaten ?" "Don't call it that." "Very well, then," she declared, "I will tell him the truth myself." "That," he answered, "is all that I should dare to ask.

He would come to us to-morrow." "You used not to underrate me," she murmured, with a glance towards the mirror.
"There is no other man like Mannering," he said.

"He abhors any form of deceit.


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