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Elizabeth’s Campaign

CHAPTER X
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You're too full of business--you take me up too quick.

What are those papers you've got there ?' Elizabeth's red cheeks showed her taken aback.

It was the first time for weeks that her employer had turned upon her so.

She had grown so accustomed to managing him, to taming the irritable temper that no one else but she could cope with, and, unconsciously, so proud of her success, that she was not prepared for this attack.

She met it meekly.
'I have a proposal here to submit to you, from -- -- & Co.' (she named a firm of timber-merchants famous throughout the Midlands).
'There is nothing in it--Captain Dell is certain--that would injure the estate.


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