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"And I have been longing to have you. Mamma would have asked you to
stay with us before, only we had the house full. Can't you come
now?"
"You will see that I shall not be allowed. It is of no use to think
about it!" said the girl, with a sigh. "Here, let us get out of
this broad path, or she may yet come after us--persuade Mrs.
Charnock Poynsett it is too cold to stand about--anything to break
up a tete-a-tete."
Jenny saw she really was in absolute fear of pursuit; but hardly yet
understood the nervous haste to turn into a not very inviting side-
path, veiled by the trees, whose wet leaves were falling.
"Do you mind the damp?" asked the girl, anxiously.
"No, not at all; but--"
"You don't know what it is never to feel free, but be like a French
girl, always watched--at least whenever I am with any one I care to
speak to."
"Are you quite sure it is not imagination?"
"O, Joanna, don't be like all the rest, blinded by her! You knew
her always!"
"Only from below. I am four years younger; you know dear Emily was
my contemporary.


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