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The Moorland Cottage

CHAPTER XI
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I only told Middleton I was obliged to leave him by the next train.

It was not till I was fairly off, that I began to reckon up what money I had with me.

I doubt even if I was sorry to find it was so little.

I should have to put forth my energies and fight my way, as I had often wanted to do.

I remember, I thought how happy you and I would be, striving together as poor people 'in that new world which is the old.' Then you had told me you were going in the steerage; and that was all suitable to my desires for myself." "It was Erminia's kindness that prevented our going there.


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