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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: world I would not do for you, nor you, I think, for me. Do you know what people are thinking about you and me ? They think that being so near we should be nearer; that we might help one another- better. That was what I wanted to ask you. Don't you think it is so ? He wanted her to commit herself first, and she was willing enough that he should commit himself, but not that she should. She was embarrassed, yet she met his eyes with a half smile. I think it is not a case for heeding what people think. Are we not very well as we are ? How could we be better than as fast friends? friends through fire and water ? That we should always be, he said, grasping her hand, that we should always be; and yet without becoming less we might be more. Speak to me frankly, dear; you know all my heart. Do not you think so too? XLII. A Great Revolution. Notwithstanding the directness of this questioning, it was by no means a direct reply which Mr. Beresford got from Mrs. Meredith. It was not a refusal, but neither was it a consent. Let us not do anything rashly, and I think we are very well as we are, was what she said, and yet the change was certainly a step nearer accomplishment now that the possibility of it had been mentioned between them. He had grown rather earnest in pressing the expediency of this step as soon as the ice was fairly broken, and had been piqued by her reluctance into more warmth than he had expected himself to feel. Nevertheless, when he came back to his own house, uncomfortable matters of detail came into Mr. Beres- ford's mind, and annoyed him more than he could have believed, more than they were worth. About the houses, for instance; if this happened, they could not go on living next door to each other. Would she come to his, or should he go to...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217890946 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217890946 |
| Weight | 2.20 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.52 In |
| List Price | $44.45 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 690 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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