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Eve’s Ransom

CHAPTER XVIII
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Besides, it won't go on much longer.
I shall get a place." Hilliard never questioned her about her attempts to obtain an engagement; the subject was too disagreeable to him.
"Nothing yet," she continued, as they walked up the muddy roadway to the Hall.

"But I know you don't like to talk about it." "I have something to propose.

How if I take a couple of cheap rooms in some building let out for offices, and put in a few sticks of furniture?
Would you come to see me there ?" He watched her face as she listened to the suggestion, and his timidity seemed justified by her expression.
"You would be so uncomfortable in such a place.

Don't trouble.

We shall manage to meet somehow.


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