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Can You Forgive Her?

CHAPTER XXIII
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What's the good of any such resolution now ?" "And you have met him ?" "Yes; he--Mr Palliser--knew all about it.

When he talked of taking me to the house, I whispered to him that I thought Burgo would be there." "Do not call him by his Christian name," said Alice, almost with a shudder.
"Why not ?--why not his Christian name?
I did when I told my husband.
Or perhaps I said Burgo Fitzgerald." "Well." "And he bade me go.

He said it didn't signify, and that I had better learn to bear it.

Bear it, indeed! If I am to meet him, and speak to him, and look at him, surely I may mention his name." And then she paused for an answer.

"May I not ?" "What am I to say ?" exclaimed Alice.
"Anything you please, that's not a falsehood.


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