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The Moonstone

CHAPTER VIII
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I suspected it, all along.

You have got the Herncastle blood in you, my young lady! I suspected it all along." "A very unworthy suspicion," remarked Mr.Bruff.

"I am astonished that you have the courage to acknowledge it." Before Mr.Ablewhite could find words to answer in, Rachel spoke in a tone of the most exasperating contempt.
"Surely," she said to the lawyer, "this is beneath notice.

If he can think in THAT way, let us leave him to think as he pleases." From scarlet, Mr.Ablewhite was now becoming purple.

He gasped for breath; he looked backwards and forwards from Rachel to Mr.Bruff in such a frenzy of rage with both of them that he didn't know which to attack first.


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