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Lady Merton, Colonist

CHAPTER XII
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He's going to-morrow.

He gets on Elizabeth's nerves." "Did he say anything to you about me ?" said Anderson.
Philip flushed.
"Well, I daresay he did." "Make your mind easy, Gaddesden.

A man with my story is not going to ask your sister to marry him." Philip looked up.

Anderson sat composedly erect, the traces of his nights of sleeplessness and revolt marked on every feature, but as much master of himself and his life--so Gaddesden intuitively felt--as he had ever been.

A movement of remorse and affection stirred in the young man mingled with the strength of other inherited things.
"Awfully sorry, you know," he said clumsily, but this time sincerely.


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