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Even Flora's commas seemed to have fled on this occasion; she was so

interview

'Though indeed,' she hurried on, 'nothing else is to be expected and why

should it be expected and if it's not to be expected why should it be,

and I a you or any one, When your olden bowl--I mean bond but I dare

say you knohat I mean and if you don't you don't lose much and care

just as little I will venture to add--when they severed the golden bond

that bound us and threw us into fits of crying on the sofa nearly choked

at leastmy hand to Mr F I

know I did so with my eyes open but he was so very unsettled and in such

low spirits that he had distractedly alluded to the river if not oil of

soood Flora, we settled that before It was all quite right'

'It's perfectly clear you think so,' returned Flora, 'for you take it

very coolly, if I hadn't known it to be China I should have guessed

ht however and I