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Elster’s Folly

CHAPTER XV
19/32

"What did you say ?" "Nothing.

There's the worst of it.

I neither denied the dowager's assumption, nor confirmed it.

Of course I cannot now." "When was this ?" "In December." "And how have things gone on since?
How do you stand with them ?" "Things have gone on as they went on before; and I stand engaged to Maude, in her mother's opinion; perhaps in hers: never having said myself one word to support the engagement." "Only continued to 'make love,' and 'snatch a kiss,'" sarcastically rejoined Mr.Carr.
"Once in a way.

What is a man to do, exposed to the witchery of a pretty girl ?" "Oh, Percival! You are worse than I thought for.


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