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A Perilous Secret

CHAPTER X
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Now tell me.

Is there proper accommodation for you in Mrs.Gilbert's house ?" "Oh yes, papa; it is a farm-house now, but it was a grand place.

There's a beautiful spare room with an oriel-window." "Well, then, you secure that, and write to-day to have a blazing fire, and the bed properly aired as well as the sheets, and you shall go to-morrow in the four-wheel; and you can take her her little stipend in a letter." This sudden kindness and provision for her health and happiness filled Mary's heart to overflowing, and her gratitude gushed forth upon Mr.
Bartley's neck.

The old fox blandly absorbed it, and took the opportunity to say, "Of course it is understood that matters are to go no further between you and Walter Clifford.

Oh, I don't mean that you're to make him unhappy, or drive him to despair; only insist upon his being patient like yourself.


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