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Deadham Hard

CHAPTER X
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Meanwhile make all your arrangements." "The village!"-- Theresa put in, with a note of despair this time perfectly genuine.
"Ah, yes--the village.

But if I take you away, in my fly I mean, that will give you a position, a standing.

It will go far to prevent unpleasant gossip!" Miss Verity's soul looked out of her candid eyes with a positive effulgence of charity.
"Oh! I can enter so fully into your shrinking from all that.

We will treat your going as temporary, merely temporary--in speaking of it both here and at Paulton Lacy.

Of course, you might stay with your friends, the good Miss Minetts; but I can't honestly counsel your doing so.


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