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and I shouldn't be surprised if he got it one of these days! And so, Miss Gueldmar,"-- and he studied her face with some solicitude--"you were very angry with him ?" "Oh yes!" she replied, "but when I told him he was a coward, and that he must go away, he said some very cruel things--" she stopped, and blushed deeply; then, as if seized by some sudden impulse, she laid her small hand on Lorimer's and said in the tone of an appealing child, "you are very good and kind to me, and you are clever,--you know so much more than I do! You must help me,--you will tell me, will you not?
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if it is wrong of me to like you all,--it is as if we had known each other a long time and I have been very happy with you and your friends.