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The Late Miss Hollingford

CHAPTER IV
16/27

Perhaps you may be gone before I come back." And with this he abruptly walked out of the room.

But afterwards I sat there an hour, wondering if what had passed so quickly were true, and I had really refused to be John Hollingford's wife.
After tea he left us early, saying he must start for Hillsbro' at four in the morning.

Mopsie fell asleep, and Jane absorbed herself in her books.

Mrs.Hollingford and I held some embroidery in our hands, but my fingers trembled so that the stitches went all wrong.

Now and again, glancing up, I encountered long troubled looks from Mrs.Hollingford.
She had seen that something was amiss between me and John, and I guessed that her mind was at work with fears.


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