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John Caldigate

CHAPTER VII
10/19

'You must have found it hard to accommodate yourselves to them, Mr.Caldigate ?' 'Not at all.' 'Of course we all know that you are a gentleman.' 'I am much obliged to you; but I do not know any word that requires a definition so much as that.

I am going to work hard to earn my bread; and I suppose these people are going to do the same.' 'There always will be some danger in such society,' said Mrs.Callander.
'I hope I may escape any great evil.' 'I hope so too, Mr.Caldigate.You probably have had a long roll of ancestors before you ?' 'We all have that;--back to Adam.' 'Ah! but I mean a family roll, of which you ought to be proud;--all ladies and gentlemen.' 'Upon my word I don't know.' 'So I hear, and I have no doubt it is true.' Then she paused, looking again into his face.

It was very square, and his lips were hard, and there was a gleam of anger in his eyes.

She wished herself back again in her own part of the ship; but she had boasted to Miss Green that she was not the woman to give up a duty when she had undertaken it.

Though she was frightened, still she must go on.


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