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Life’s Little Ironies

CHAPTER III
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You had better not seek me, for you will not be likely to find me: you are well provided for, and we may do ourselves more harm than good by meeting again.
'F.

M.' Millborne, in short, disappeared from that day forward.

But a searching inquiry would have revealed that, soon after the Millbornes went to Ivell, an Englishman, who did not give the name of Millborne, took up his residence in Brussels; a man who might have been recognized by Mrs.
Millborne if she had met him.

One afternoon in the ensuing summer, when this gentleman was looking over the English papers, he saw the announcement of Miss Frances Frankland's marriage.

She had become the Reverend Mrs.Cope.
'Thank God!' said the gentleman.
But his momentary satisfaction was far from being happiness.


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