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Cobwebs and Cables

CHAPTER X
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I have not altogether lost him, though he's gone, as long as I can think of how he used to come in and go out of this room, always with a smile for me.

But if I go where he never was, how can I think I see him there?
And my son will be angry if we go; he will come back, and clear up all this mystery, and he will think we went away because we thought he had done evil.

Ought we not to come home again after we have been to Scarborough ?" "I think Mrs.Sefton will die if she stays here," said Phebe.

"It is necessary for her to make this change; and you'd rather go with her and the children than live here alone without them." "Oh, yes, yes!" answered Madame; "I cannot leave my little Felix and Hilda, or Felicita: she is my son's dear wife.

But he will come home some day, and we can return then; you hope so, don't you, Phebe ?" "If God pleases!" said Phebe, sighing.
"In truth, if God pleases!" repeated Madame.
When the last hour came in which Phebe could see Roland's wife, she sought for her in her study, where she was choosing the books to be sent after her.


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