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John Halifax
Gentleman

CHAPTER XVII
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But now the pride and joy had both faded.
"Mrs.Jessop, you see I am right," he murmured.

"I ought not to have come here.

It is a hard world for such as I.

I shall never conquer it--never." "Yes--you will." And Ursula stood by him, with crimsoned cheek, and eyes no longer flashing, but fearless still.
Mrs.Jessop put her arm round the young girl.

"I also think you need not dread the world, Mr.Halifax, if you always act as you did tonight; though I grieve that things should have happened thus, if only for the sake of this, my child." "Have I done any harm?
oh! tell me, have I done any harm ?" "No!" cried Ursula, with the old impetuosity kindling anew in every feature of her noble face.


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