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The Mummy and Miss Nitocris

CHAPTER XIII
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Mammy and I may have been a bit troubled over some of those other refusals of yours, but you seem to have known best, after all: and I reckon your Uncle Ephraim'll think the same.

Lord Leighton's a man right through.

He wouldn't have done what he has done if he hadn't been.

Shake, child, and----" Brenda "shook," and then, without another word, she got up and hurried out of the room.
"The girl's right!" said Professor van Huysman, as the door closed behind her; "and if I'm not a fool entirely, she's found the right man." "Hoskins, you can leave that to a well-brought-up girl like Brenda all the time.

She _is_ right, and all we've got to hope for now is that the Earl will be right too," said his wife somewhat anxiously.
"He's just got to see our girl and then he will be, unless he's a natural born idiot, which, of course, he couldn't be," replied Brenda's father in a tone of absolute conviction.


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