[Ernest Linwood by Caroline Lee Hentz]@TWC D-Link bookErnest Linwood CHAPTER VII 14/18
Mrs. Linwood is a noble, excellent woman,--I wish you knew her.
I wish you knew Edith,--I wish you knew them all.
They would appreciate you.
I am sure they would." "_I_ know them!" I exclaimed, glancing at our lowly cottage, my simple dress, and contrasting them mentally with the lordly dwelling and costly apparel of these favorites of nature and of fortune.
"They appreciate _me_!" "I suppose you think Edith Linwood the most enviable of human beings. Rich, lovely, with the power of gratifying every wish, and of dispensing every good, she would gladly exchange this moment with you, and dip water from yon bubbling spring." "Impossible!" I cried.
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