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Springhaven

CHAPTER XXXIII
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By the time I come back from the rectory, perhaps you will have made up your mind about it.
Till then, good-bye to you, Daniel." He stepped out of the path, that she might go by, and only said, "Then goodbye, miss; I shall be far away when you come back." This was more than the best-regulated, or largest--which generally is the worst-regulated--feminine mind could put up with.

Miss Darling came back, with her mind made up to learn all, or to know the reason why.
"Dan, this is unworthy of you," she said, with her sweet voice full of sorrow.

"Have I ever been hard or unkind to you, Dan, that you should be so afraid of me ?" "No, miss, never.

But too much the other way.

That makes it so bad for me to say good-bye.


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