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Newton Forster

CHAPTER XXXV
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Let me go with you and confront him.

Only let him dare to say it to my face; 'tis all I ask, William, that I may clear my fame with you.

Come to bed--nay, nay, don't refuse me," and poor Mrs Sullivan again burst into tears.
We must leave the couple to pass the remaining hours in misery, which, however, reclaimed them both from faults.

Mrs Sullivan never coquetted more; and her husband was, after this, never jealous but on trifles.
The colonel was just as busy on his side in preparing for the chances of the morrow: these chances, however, were never tried; for Captain Carrington and his confederates had made their arrangements.

Mr Sullivan was already dressed, his wife clinging to him in frantic despair, when a letter was left at his door, the purport of which was that Colonel Ellice had discovered that his companions had been joking with him, when they had asserted that during his state of inebriety he had offered any rudeness to Mrs Sullivan.


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