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Glasses

CHAPTER III
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"I'm sure I don't want him!" said my mother, but Flora added some promise of how she would handle him for his rudeness.

She would clearly never explain anything by any failure of her own appeal.

There rolled over me while she took leave of us and floated back to her friends a wave of superstitious dread.

I seemed somehow to see her go forth to her fate, and yet what should fill out this orb of a high destiny if not such beauty and such joy?
I had a dim idea that Lord Considine was a great proprietor, and though there mingled with it a faint impression that I shouldn't like his son the result of the two images was a whimsical prayer that the girl mightn't miss her possible fortune..


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