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'Miss Hornblower told me many things; some that I don't think you ought to hear, Phoebe. He was engaged to a very pretty Miss Gregson, at Henwick, where he comes from; and her father made inquiries, and heard so much that was bad about him, that he made his daughter break off the match, and she's dead since! 'How shocking! said Miss Phoebe, duly impressed.
'Nothing, only she seemed such a little thing for all those grave ministers to be praying for, and so many folk come from a distance some from Boston they said all for her sake, as it were. Why, didst thou see, it was godly Mr. Henwick that held her head when he wriggled so, and old Madam Holbrook had herself helped upon a chair to see the better.
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