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The Moonstone

CHAPTER XVII
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There was certainly no object about her to look at which she had not seen already hundreds on hundreds of times.
"Cheer up, Rosanna!" I said.

"You mustn't fret over your own fancies.

I have got something to say to you from Mr.Franklin." I thereupon put the matter in the right view before her, in the friendliest and most comforting words I could find.

My principles, in regard to the other sex, are, as you may have noticed, very severe.

But somehow or other, when I come face to face with the women, my practice (I own) is not conformable.
"Mr.Franklin is very kind and considerate.


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