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Cope was gone, without having left her a word of advice to decide her one way or the other. Things are rather apt to settle themselves; and so did Paul Blackthorn's stay at the post-office, for the poor boy was in such an agony of pain all night, and the fever ran so high, that it was impossible to think of moving him, even if the waiting upon him in such suffering had not made Mrs.
I suppose we can only hope that something may put a stop to it all we must just leave it to chance." This sentiment amused me not a little. Leave it to chance indeed! Had she not caused me to grow stronger and larger by every word she uttered? And had not the conversation revealed to me Mr. Blackthorn's one vulnerable part?
Then came the bare fell, and the raw north wind, and the low gray house, stretching itself under the leafless, outspreading limbs of the sycamores. In the valley, there had been many wild flowers, tufts of violets and early primroses, and even at Up-Hill the blackthorn's stiff boughs were covered with tiny white buds, and here and there an open blossom.
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