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Springhaven

CHAPTER XXV
19/23

Have faith in me purely, and all shall be done." "All what ?" Dolly asked, with a turn of common-sense, which is the most provoking of all things sometimes; and she looked at him steadily, to follow up her question.
"You cannot be persuaded that you are in any danger.

It is possible that I have been too anxious.

Do you speak the French language easily?
Do you comprehend it, when spoken quickly ?" "Not a word of it.

I have had to learn, of course, and can pronounce very well, my last mistress said; but I cannot make it out at all in the way the French people pronounce it, when one comes to talk with them." "It is very wrong of them, and the loss is theirs.

They expect us to copy them even in their language, because we do it in everything else.
Pardon me--one moment.


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