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The Chief Legatee

CHAPTER XVI
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"Yet I am not so thoroughly convinced as to feel absolute peace here," he admitted, striking his breast with irrepressible passion.

"My good sense tells me I am a fool, but my heart whispers that the sweetness in her sleeping face was the sweetness which won me to love Georgian Hazen.

That gentle sweetness! Did you note it ?" "Yes, I noted what you mention.

But don't let that influence you too much.

The wildest heart has its tender moments, and her dreams may have been pleasant ones." Mr.Ransom remembered her unconscious whisper and felt stunned, silenced.
The lawyer gave no evidence of observing this, but remarked quite easily and with evident sincerity: "I am more readily affected by proof than you are.


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