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Elster’s Folly

CHAPTER XVI
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It is not heat I need; only shelter from our cold northern winds until I can get a little strength into me.
There's nothing the matter with my lungs; indeed, I don't know that anything is the matter with me except this terrible weakness." "I suppose Anne goes with you ?" "Oh yes.

I could not go without Anne.

The doctor will see us settled there, and then he returns." A thought crossed Lord Hartledon: how pleasant if he and Anne could have been married, and have made this their wedding tour.

He did not speak it: Mrs.Ashton would have laughed at his haste.
"How long shall you remain away ?" he asked.
"Ah, I cannot tell you.

I may not live to return.


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