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Pembroke

CHAPTER IV
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It's all over." "Charlotte." "What is it ?" "Why--couldn't you go somewhere else to get married?
What's the need of his comin' here, if he's been ordered out, and he's said he wouldn't ?" "That's just the letter of it," returned Charlotte, scornfully.

"Do you suppose he could cheat himself that way, or I'd have him if he could?
When Barney Thayer went out of this house last night, and said what he did, he meant that it was all over, that he was never going to marry me, nor have anything more to do with us, and he's going to stand by it.

I am not finding any fault with him.

I've made up my mind that it's all over, and I'm going to pack away my weddin' things." "Oh, Charlotte, you take it so calm!" "What do you want me to do ?" "If it was anybody else, I should think they didn't care." "Maybe I don't." "I couldn't bear it so, anyhow! I couldn't!" Rose cried out, with sudden passion.

"I wouldn't bear it.


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