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John Caldigate

CHAPTER XXXIII
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She'll be a deal too proud.
She'll rampage at the front door, and 'll despise any escaping like.' That was the gardener's idea, and the gardener had long known the young lady.

By these arguments Mrs.Bolton was induced to postpone her prison arrangements till the morrow.
When she found her daughter in the small parlour she had settled much in her mind.

During the early morning,--that is, till Mr.Bolton should have gone into Cambridge,--not a word should be said about the marriage.
Then when they two would be alone together, another attempt should be made to persuade Hester to come and live at Chesterton till after the trial.

But even in making that attempt no opinion should be expressed as to John Caldigate's wickedness, and no hint should be given as to the coming incarceration.

'Did you bring baby down with you ?' the grandmother asked.


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