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Christian’s Mistake

CHAPTER 12
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To refuse a gentleman's visits--his open visits here--on the pretext that he is not good enough for your society, and then to meet him, sit with him, walk with him in the college grounds.

What will people say." Christian turned like a hunted creature at bay, "I do not care--not a jot, what people say." "I thought not.

People like you never do care.

They fly in the face of society; they--" "Husband!" with a sort of wild appeal, the first she had ever made for protection--for at least justice.
Dr.Grey looked up, started out of a long fit of thoughtfulness--sadness it might be, during which he had let the conversation pass him by.
"The only thing I care for is what my husband thinks.

If he blames me--" "For what, my dear ?" "Because, when I was walking in the college grounds, as any lady may walk, that man, Sir Edwin Uniacke, whose acquaintance I desire as little as you do, came up and spoke to me, or rather to Arthur.


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