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A Strange Story
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CHAPTER XVI
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I don't know what we should have done without Mr.Vigors, and I am so glad he has forgiven me." "Hem! Where is Miss Ashleigh?
Indoors ?" "No; somewhere in the grounds.

But, my dear Dr.Fenwick, do not leave me yet; you are so very, very kind, and somehow I have grown to look upon you quite as an old friend.

Something has happened which has put me out, quite put me out." She said this wearily and feebly, closing her eyes as if she were indeed put out in the sense of extinguished.
"The feeling of friendship you express," said I, with earnestness, "is reciprocal.

On my side it is accompanied by a peculiar gratitude.

I am a lonely man, by a lonely fireside, no parents, no near kindred, and in this town, since Dr.Faber left it, without cordial intimacy till I knew you.


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