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Deadham Hard

CHAPTER XI
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I have pretty thoroughly banked against that, you see.

So you've only to send when, and if, you want me.

I shall turn up--oh! never fear, I shall turn up." "And I shall send--we shall both send," Damaris answered gravely, even a little brokenly.
The crown might be heavy; but she had strangely ceased to desire to be rid of it, beginning, indeed, to find its weight oddly satisfying, even, it may be asserted, trenching on the exquisite.

And, with this altered attitude, a freedom of spirit, greater than she had enjoyed since the commencement of the whole astonishing episode, since before her cousin Tom Verity's visit in fact, came upon her.

It lightened her heart.


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