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The Measure of a Man

CHAPTER XIII
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I wonder John gave it as long as he did! I do that.

If I was thee, I would try to forget myself a bit.

I would let the sunshine into these beautiful rooms.

If thou doesn't, the moths will eat up thy fine carpets and cushions, and thou will become one of those chronic, disagreeable invalids that nobody on earth--and I wouldn't wonder if nobody in heaven either--cares a button for." Jane defended herself with an equal sincerity, and a good many truths were made clear to her that had only hitherto been like a restless movement of her consciousness.

In fact the Lady of Hatton Hall left her daughter-in-law penetrated with a new sense of her position.


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