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The Morgesons

CHAPTER XIV
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She was a dignified, kind-looking woman, who asked me a few questions in such a pleasant, direct manner that I frankly told her I was eighteen years old, very ignorant, and averse from learning; but I did not speak loud enough for anybody beside herself to hear.
"Now," said mother, when we came away, "think how much greater your advantages are than mine have ever been.

How miserable was my youth! It is too late for me to make any attempt at cultivation.

I have no wish that way.

Yet now I feel sometimes as if I were leaving the confines of my old life to go I know not whither, to do I know not what." But her countenance fell when she heard that Dr.Price had been a Unitarian minister, and that there was no Congregational church in Rosville.
She went to Boston that Friday afternoon, anxious to get safely home with Veronica.

We parted with many a kiss and shake of the hand and last words.


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