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Alone In London

CHAPTER I
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And she took me at my word though she might have known it was nothing but father's hot temper.

Darken my doors! Why, the brightest sunshine I could have 'ud be to see her come smiling into my shop, like she used to do at home." "Well, I think Susan ought to have humbled herself," said Charlotte.
"It's going on for six years now, and she's had time enough to see her folly.

Do you know where she is ?" "I know nothing about her," he answered, shaking his head sorrowfully.
"Young Raleigh was wild, very wild, and that was my objection to him; but I didn't mean Susan to take me at my word.

I shouldn't speak so hasty and hot now." "And to think.

I'd helped to bring her up so genteel, and with such pretty manners!" cried the old woman, indignantly.


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