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He is always at the Ocklebournes', and you know what Nelly Ocklebourne is. The way she behaves is disgraceful. Harry was always particularly friendly in that quarter, and it is absurd of them to talk about the friendship of a lifetime as an excuse for a quite disgraceful familiarity. Wherever he goes, Nell is certain to turn up, too. It is quite marked.
If you could manage another fifteen hundred for me, mother, I could go away happy. Don't cry. You see, if I shouldn't come back you've got Netty." "What! Haven't you heard?" she asked. "Don't you know that Netty is going to leave us? Harry Bent proposed yesterday afternoon at the Ocklebournes'. He's going away, too and you may neither of you come back." "Hush, hush, mother!
You see, I have rather a big bill with a dressmaker, and I wanted some more new frocks for the Ocklebournes' parties. She has refused to give me any more credit without security, so I left some jewelry with her old-fashioned stuff that I never wear." "But, my darling, that was practically raising money on heirlooms. Your father distinctly warned you that the jewels were only lent.
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