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John Halifax
Gentleman

CHAPTER XVI
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Is she well?
Has she recovered from her trial ?" "I hope so.

Happily, few sorrows, few feelings of any kind, take lasting hold at eighteen.

She is a noble girl.

She did her duty, and it was no light one, to him who is gone; now her life begins anew.

It is sure to be prosperous--I trust it may be very happy .-- Now I must bid you both good-bye." She stopped at the gates of the Mythe House; great iron gates, a barrier as proud and impassable as that which in these times the rich shut against the poor, the aristocrat against the plebeian.


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