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The Nether World

CHAPTER XX
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Since I came back to England he's been managing the money for me; he's paid me the little we needed, and the rest of the income has been used in charity by some people we could trust.

Well, Mr.Percival doesn't go with me in my plans for Jane.

He thinks I'm making a mistake, that I ought to have had the child educated to fit her to live with rich people.

It's no use; I can't get him to feel what a grand thing it'll be for Jane to go about among her own people and help them as nobody ever could.

He said to me not long ago, "And isn't the girl ever to have a husband ?" It's my hope that she will, I told him.


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