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or Ann there was only

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orgot the correct demeanor for a high-class parlor-maid and became a cou

ve me to post." Tabs thought quickly, "Hullo, we're in for

t. We didn't tell anybody. But we'd made up our minds to get married if he ever came back. If I'd been engaged to him, I'd have a right to make enquiries; but now, in most people's eyes, I was nothing to

plan. "You thought that I might persuade him to

hip? I don't know how to set about things myself. It's this-this," she almost broke

tainty was killing her. "Don't upset yourself by talking about it," he s

f at his desk. A sound behind him warned him; he looked ac

particulars that your Lordship ought to have? Things like his regimental number

t's

lope. "It's one of his letters. If the Gener

lance th

sheets of paper. They were

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d shall soon be 'an officer and a gentleman.' Don't tell his Lordship if you write to him or see him; he's still in the ranks and might not like it. It's funny to think that I shall be his mil

ough this sheet and

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little mistress

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sweetheart

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for the present?-And, by the way,

That's one of the last-I never heard from

aithwaite, together with a note from himself, which read, "One of the important reasons why I am insistent that you shall call on me is containe