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Can You Forgive Her?

CHAPTER XXV
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He is one of the best fellows in the world.

It is clear that he likes you; and then we should be so near to each other.
I am sure Mr Palliser would do something for him if he married,--and especially if I asked him." "I only know of two things against it." "And what are they ?" "That he would not take me for his wife, and that I would not take him for my husband." "Why not?
What do you dislike in him ?" "I don't dislike him at all.

I like him very much indeed.

But one can't marry all the people one likes." "But what reason is there why you shouldn't marry him ?" "This chiefly," said Alice, after a pause; "that I have just separated myself from a man whom I certainly did love truly, and that I cannot transfer my affections quite so quickly as that." As soon as the words were out of her mouth she knew that they should not have been spoken.

It was exactly what Glencora had done.


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