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The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

CHAPTER XX
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She've a Cross in her bedroom.

She don't go to church.

I see you there last Sunday a-lookin' so solemn," and Molly stroked her hand down her chin to give it length.
Adrian insisted on her keeping to facts.

It was dark, and in the dark he was indifferent to the striking contrasts suggested by the lass, but he wanted to hear facts, and he again bribed her to impart nothing but facts.

Upon which she told him further, that her young lady was an innocent artless creature who had been to school upwards of three years with the nuns, and had a little money of her own, and was beautiful enough to be a lord's lady, and had been in love with Master Richard ever since she was a little girl.


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