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Springhaven

CHAPTER XIX
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And how can he tell whether he is wrong or right, when he goes away fifty miles to attend to other people?
Of course I would never disobey his orders, anymore than you would.

But facts change according to circumstances, and I feel convinced that if he were here he would say, 'Go down and see it, Dolly.'" "We have no right to speculate as to what he might say," replied Faith, who was very clear-headed.

"His orders were definite: 'Keep within the grounds, when notice is given of artillery practice.' And those orders I mean to obey." "And so do I; but not to misunderstand them.

The beach is a part of our grounds, as I have heard him say fifty times in argument, when people tried to come encroaching.

And I mean to go on that part of his grounds, because I can't see well from the other part.


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