[The Late Miss Hollingford by Rosa Mulholland]@TWC D-Link bookThe Late Miss Hollingford CHAPTER XIII 23/25
I think he has given me up.
I know not what he means to do, but I think he means to let me have my own way.
I think I should have been silent to the last, but that I saw my mother to-day.
I saw her! I saw her! * * * * * "And now you will tell her all--everything," I said, squeezing her hands, while the tears were raining down my face. "Margery, Margery!" cried Rachel, "how can I give up Arthur? Here he has come to me after these years of waiting, and presses me to name a day for our marriage, and I am to meet him with a story like this! He would despise me." "I think," said I, "that if he be a generous man he will forgive you. After loving you so long, he will not give you up so easily.
And your mother," I added.
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