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"Yes, darling." The buffalo were surprised and the magpie was glad, and flew about making a great noise. It doth so well become her.'".
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"I can't," says Mona; "it would be very unfair; and besides," petulantly, "it is all too absurd. Why, if Mr. Moore were to ask me to marry him ten thousand times again, I should never say anything but 'no.'"I tried logging in using my phone number and I
was supposed to get a verification code text,but didn't
get it. I clicked resend a couple time, tried the "call
me instead" option twice but didn't get a call
either. the trouble shooting had no info on if the call
me instead fails.There was
"Well, then, I will not," returns she, with a last effort at determination, and the most miserable face in the world.
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To-morrow will be market-day in Bantry, to which the week's butter must go; and now the churning is over, and the result of it lies cold and rich and fresh beneath Mona's eyes. She herself is busily engaged printing little pats off a large roll of butter that rests on the slab before her; her sleeves are carefully tucked up, as on that first day when Geoffrey saw her; and in defiance of her own heart—which knows itself to be sad—she is lilting some little foolish lay, bright and shallow as the October sunshine that floods the room, lying in small silken patches on the walls and floor. "Oh, no! it is not that! you must know it is not that," says Mona, in deep grief. "It is that I cannot marry you!" "This spot always brings to my mind the thoughts of other people," says Mona, softly. "I am very fond of poetry: are you?" "You are very much to be admired," says his mother, in an abominable tone..
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