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She could not talk this out with anybody, except now and then an

utterance to the consenting Mr Mauleverer, but in general she would

have been shocked to put these surging thoughts into words, and Bessie

was her only inti to

be found fault with in a clergyretfully, soo over bits

of narrow-y, and more

especially in her uncle's curate, Mr Lifford, whose dryness was, she

owned, very repulsive to her

"He is a good creature," she said, "and et through life together, I cannot tell It h! After my visit at Bath will come my home at

Bishopsworthy!" And then she confided to Rachel all the parish ways, and

took counsel on the means of usefulness that would not clash with the

curate and pain her uncle She even talked of a possible orphan for the

F U E E, only that unlucky prejudice against Mr Mauleverer was sure

to stand in the way

So acceptable had Bessie Keith rieved at her engagement to spend the winter at Bath