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'They reach grandada's hands by afternoon post, Harry, and he finds objectionable passages blotted or cut out; and as long as the scissors don't touch the business columns and the debates, he never asks me what I have been doing. He thinks I keep a scrap-book. I haven't often time in the morning to run an eye all over the paper. This morning it was the first thing I saw. What had she seen?
'Now what on earth is the meaning of that, and why can't you speak mildly? 'I suppose I speak as I feel. I'm a plain speaker, a plain person. You don't give me an easy task, friend Harry. 'If you believe in his generosity, Janet, should you be afraid to put it to proof? 'Grandada's generosity, Harry? I do believe in it as I believe in my own life.
'Now what on earth is the meaning of that, and why can't you speak mildly? 'I suppose I speak as I feel. I'm a plain speaker, a plain person. You don't give me an easy task, friend Harry. 'If you believe in his generosity, Janet, should you be afraid to put it to proof? 'Grandada's generosity, Harry? I do believe in it as I believe in my own life.
'I was sure it was serious, though one's accustomed to associate princesses with young men's dreams. I fear, Harry, it will half break our dear old grandada's heart. He is rough, and you have often been against him, for one unfortunate reason. If you knew him as I do you would pity him sincerely. He hardly grumbled at all at your terribly long absence. Poor old man! he hopes on.
The delusion, that what she was she must always be, because it was her nature, had mastered her understanding, or rather it was one of the doors of her understanding not yet opened: she had to respect her grandada's wishes. She made it likewise appear that she was ready for further sacrifices to carry out the same. 'At least you will accept a division of the property, Harry. It should be yours.
'Will you go, Harry? Will you not take Riversley? she said. I laughed. 'To spare you the repetition of the dilemma? 'No, Harry; but this might be done. 'But my fullest thanks to you for your generosity: really! I speak in earnest: it would be decidedly against your grandada's wishes, seeing that he left the Grange to you, and not to me. 'Grandada's wishes!
'I was sure it was serious, though one's accustomed to associate princesses with young men's dreams. I fear, Harry, it will half break our dear old grandada's heart. He is rough, and you have often been against him, for one unfortunate reason. If you knew him as I do you would pity him sincerely. He hardly grumbled at all at your terribly long absence. Poor old man! he hopes on.
The delusion, that what she was she must always be, because it was her nature, had mastered her understanding, or rather it was one of the doors of her understanding not yet opened: she had to respect her grandada's wishes. She made it likewise appear that she was ready for further sacrifices to carry out the same. 'At least you will accept a division of the property, Harry. It should be yours.
'He had plenty, I said, and Janet shut her lips. Her coldness was irritating. What ground of accusation had she against me? Our situation had become so delicate that a cold breath sundered us as far as the Poles. I was at liberty to suspect that now she was the heiress, her mind was simply obedient to her grandada's wish; but, as I told my aunt Dorothy, I would not do her that injustice.
'Will you go, Harry? Will you not take Riversley? she said. I laughed. 'To spare you the repetition of the dilemma? 'No, Harry; but this might be done. 'But my fullest thanks to you for your generosity: really! I speak in earnest: it would be decidedly against your grandada's wishes, seeing that he left the Grange to you, and not to me. 'Grandada's wishes!
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