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The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers

CHAPTER XIV
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Easy over the last fields.

There are houses in sight, and there may be wicked Sabbath-breakers looking out of windows.

Brown's foal has grown since July.

Here we are! I am not the only Christian hurrying among the tombs.
I shall get in with 'the wicked man' after all." Some people do not look round in church; others do.

Mrs.Alwynn always did, partly because she wished to see what was going on behind her, and partly because, in turning back again, she could take a stealthy survey of Mrs.Thursby's bonnet, in which she always felt a burning interest, which she would not for worlds have allowed that lady to suspect.
If the turning round had been all, it would have mattered little; but Mrs.Alwynn suffered so intensely from keeping silence that she was obliged to relieve herself at intervals by short whispered comments to Ruth.
On this particular morning it seemed as if the comments would never end.
"I am so glad we asked Mr.Dare into our pew, Ruth.


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