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Scenes of Clerical Life

CHAPTER 2
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Not a rosy-cheeked widow like you, Mrs.
Hartopp.' 'Indeed, your honour, I never heard of her squintin', an' they said as she might ha' been married o'er and o'er again, to people as had no call to hanker after her money.' 'Ay, ay, that's what you all think.

Every man that looks at you wants to marry you, and would like you the better the more children you have and the less money.

But it is useless to talk and cry.

I have good reasons for my plans, and never alter them.

What you have to do is to take the best of your stock, and to look out for some little place to go to, when you leave The Hollows.


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