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The Reason Why

CHAPTER XXX
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Then it comes out; but if, as I say, it is far enough back, the Jew will do the future Tancred race a power of good, to get the commercial common sense of it into them--knew Maurice Grey, her father, years ago, and he was just as indifferent to money and material things, as Tristram is himself.

So the good will come from the Markrute side, we will hope." "I rather wonder, Crow--if there ever will be any more of the Tancred race.

I thought last night we had a great failure, and that nothing will make that affair prosper.

I don't believe they ever see one another from one day to the next! It is extremely sad." "I told you they had come to a ticklish point in their careers," the Crow permitted himself to remind his friend, "and, 'pon my soul, I could not bet you one way or another how it will go.

'I hae me doots,' as the Scotchman said." Meanwhile, Ethelrida, on the plea of letters to write, had retired to her room; and there, as the clock struck a quarter past three, she awaited--what?
She would not own to herself that it was her fate.


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