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You have regularly upset me, Lizzy.' 'I am sorry for that,' Lizzy meekly replied.
'Well now,' said he more tenderly, 'no harm is done as yet.

Won't you for the sake of me give up this blamable and dangerous practice altogether ?' 'I must do my best to save this run,' said she, getting rather husky in the throat.

'I don't want to give you up--you know that; but I don't want to lose my venture.