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...she heard the Admiral say to Mary-- / "We are expecting a brother of Mrs Croft's here soon; I dare say you know him by name." / He was cut short by the eager attacks of the little boys, clinging to him like an old friend, and declaring he should not go; and being too much engrossed by proposals of carrying them away in his coat pockets, &c., to have another moment for finishing or recollecting what he had begun, Anne was left to persuade herself, as well as she could, that the same brother must still be in question. |
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