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Creed said, "She always have me or one of the
children with her. And Mrs. Creed, marm, says she, if you please, marm,
you'll on no account leave the room when that young gentleman's here. And
many's the time I've seen him a lookin' as if he wished I was away, poor
young man: and he took to coming in service-time, when I wasn't at home,
of course: but she always had one of the boys up if her Pa wasn't at
home, or old Mr. Bowser with her a teaching of her her lesson, or one of
the young ladies of the theayter."
It was all true: whatever encouragements might have been given him before
he avowed his passion, the prudence of Miss Emily was prodigious after
Pen had declared himself: and the poor fellow chafed against her hopeless
reserve, which maintained his ardour as it excited his anger.
The Major surveyed the state of things with a sigh. "If it were but a
temporary liaison," the excellent man said, "one could bear it. A young
fellow must sow his wild oats, and that sort of thing. But a virtuous
attachment is the deuce.


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