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The Woodlanders

CHAPTER XXIV
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I congratulate ye.

It is only a month to-day to the time!" She did not answer, but, without lifting her dress, waded between the dewy rows of tall potato-green into the middle of the plot where he was.
"I have been thinking very much about my position this morning--ever since it was light," she began, excitedly, and trembling so that she could hardly stand.

"And I feel it is a false one.

I wish not to marry Mr.Fitzpiers.

I wish not to marry anybody; but I'll marry Giles Winterborne if you say I must as an alternative." Her father's face settled into rigidity, he turned pale, and came deliberately out of the plot before he answered her.


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