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'I don't think it is any hardship to earn your own living, though perhaps she is too pretty; anyway, it's being made easier for her than for many a girl who is just as good, objected Mr. Murchison. 'It's worse for her, because she's so beastly proud always was as a child; but she's a good sort, and I only hope Jones will get his way, though I "ha'e ma douts," as we say up north.
Such a mere handful is of course easily "douted." An extinguisher "douts" a candle; the heel of a boot "douts" a match thrown down. But the exact definition of "dout" is to smother, or extinguish by beating.
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