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Uncle Silas

CHAPTER XIV
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Ah ha, no! Mais c'est toute une histoire--too tedious to tell now--some time maybe--and you will learn when you are little older, the most violent hatreds often they are the most without cause.

But, my dear cheaile, the hours they are running from us, and I must dress.

Vite, vite! so you run away to the school-room, and I will come after.' Madame had her dressing-case and her mysteries, and palpably stood in need of repairs; so away I went to my studies.

The room which we called the school-room was partly beneath the floor of Madame's bed-chamber, and commanded the same view; so, remembering my governess's peering glance from her windows, I looked out, and saw Cousin Monica making a brisk promenade up and down the terrace-walk.

Well, that was quite enough to account for it.


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