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The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton

CHAPTER XXIII
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There was something, even then, which kept me from being with them while I looked, and I know that at that moment, at the moment I looked up and met your eyes, I know that there was no vulgar thought in my heart." "Dear," she said, "with every word you make me the more inclined to persist.

I honestly believe that father and Mr.Bomford are right.

It is your duty.

You owe it to yourself to accept their offer." He sat for several minutes without speech.
"If I could only make you understand!" he went on at last.

"Somehow, I feel as though it would be making almost a vulgar use of something which is to me divine.


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