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John Halifax
Gentleman

CHAPTER XVI
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But I liked her--I liked my life with them.

It was like breathing a higher air, the same air that--Oh, Phineas, it was horrible to come back to my life here--to that accursed tan-yard!" I said nothing.
"You see, now"-- and that hard laugh smote me to the heart again--"you see, Phineas, how wicked I am growing.

You will have to cut my acquaintance presently." "Tell me the rest--I mean, the rest of your life in London," I said, after a pause.

"Did you ever hear of her ?" "Of course not; though I knew she was there.

I saw it in the Court Circular.


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