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The Prime Minister

CHAPTER XVI
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If I were Arthur I would leave her for six months, and never speak to her during the time." "I suppose, mother," said the younger Mrs.Fletcher,--who called her husband's mother, mother, and her own mother, mamma,--"a girl needn't marry a man unless she likes him." "But she should try to like him if it is suitable in other respects.
I don't mean to take any trouble about it.

Arthur needn't beg for any favour.

Only I wouldn't have come here if I had thought that she had intended to sit silent like that always." "It makes her unhappy, I suppose," said Lady Wharton, "because she can't do what we all want." "Fall, lall! She'd have wanted it herself if nobody else had wished it.

I'm surprised that Arthur should be so much taken with her." "You'd better say nothing more about it, mother." "I don't mean to say anything more about it.

It's nothing to me.
Arthur can do very well in the world without Emily Wharton.


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