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Peter’s Mother

CHAPTER XX
20/28

Men, I am sorry to say, no longer take the trouble to deceive me.

Now our business is over, will you take me back ?" She took the arm he offered, and tottered back to the terrace.
"Bring her to see me in London, and bring her as soon as you can," said.

Lady Tintern.

"She is the friend I have dreamed of, and never met.

When is it going to be ?" "At once," said John, calmly.
"You are the most sensible man I have seen for a long time," said Lady Tintern.
* * * * * Peter and Sarah hardly exchanged a word during their return journey from the moors after the unlucky picnic; and at the door of Happy Jack's cottage in Youlestone village she commanded her obedient swain to deposit the luncheon basket, and bade him farewell.
The aged road-mender, to his intense surprise and chagrin, had one morning found himself unable to rise from his bed.


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