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"No, I e which

led into Lowick Gate, and al while on the Lowick road away frolad of

the starlit darkness when it came He felt as if he had had dirt cast

on him amidst shouts of scorn There was this to confirm the fellow's

statement--that his mother never would tell him the reason why she had

run away from her fa the truth about

that faliest? His mother had braved hardship in order

to separate herself from it But if Dorothea's friends had known this

story--if the Chettaive their suspicions a welco him unfit to

come near her However, let them suspect what they pleased, they would

find the They would find out that the blood in

his veins was as free from the taint of meanness as theirs