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Afterwards

Chapter 8 No.8

Word Count: 991    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

when there is no dancing. Their Worships will be satisfied this evening, for the whole world and h

I passed the old man himself a minute ago, conversing with Peterson, and lecturing on the effect of the Am

cares. Mrs. Arkwright is very beautiful In my humble judgment, but there is a wide gulf between twenty-one and seventy. Besides, she has a temper

me the pleasure of pointing Mrs. Arkwright out to me, and, as you seem to have seen a good deal of her, introducing you

w whether I can intrude on her at the present moment, even although provided with so good-looking and well-d

erves no credit; it is inevitable. There is prettiness, and there is sweetness,

notice that even so blasé a critic of womankind can gr

self-made wool-spinner and a deacon. Her face is the most complete piece of Grecian beauty I ever saw-nose, eyes, chin, mouth,

to-night Do you notice how she ha

with such a face and such an air, ever marry Arkwright? Where was she hidden away? Had

gious affairs, saw her in chapel, and remembered he was human. Fell in love with her on first sight, having lived sc

mother of hers must have been, and what did she herself do this thing

I fancy has a very different idea of things from her husband, but she had the chance of a handsome provision for herself and her mother, and she seized

gainst nature to sacrifice a beautiful young woman to a hard, bloodless old Puritan like Arkwright, who is, I grant you, very able in wool, and perf

t she has a good home, and a carriage, and as much money as she can spend. I don't suppo

Jack, without any reflection on her wifely character, that she never looked at her worthy, but not very a

He is a very able fellow, they say, and a rattling good preacher, quite broad and liberal in his views, but a perfect

his wife will have time to console herself, and her second husband

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