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Can You Forgive Her?

CHAPTER XXIII
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But I've got you here because I don't think you will tell a falsehood.

Oh, Alice, I do so want to go right, and it is so hard!" Hard, indeed, poor creature, for one so weighted as she had been, and sent out into the world with so small advantages of previous training or of present friendship! Alice began to feel now that she had been enticed to Matching Priory because her cousin wanted a friend, and of course she could not refuse to give the friendship that was asked from her.

She got up from her chair, and kneeling down at the other's feet put up her face and kissed her.
"I knew you would be good to me," said Lady Glencora.

"I knew you would.

And you may say whatever you like.


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