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CHAPTER VI. MADONNA GOES TO LONDON.
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The clown’s wife had sat very pale and very quiet under the whole overwhelming torrent1 of Mr. Blyth’s apostrophes, exclamations2, and entreaties3. She seemed quite unable to speak, after he was fairly gone; and only looked round in a bewildered manner at the rector, with fear as well as amazement4 expressed vividly5 in her hearty6, healthy face.
“Pray compose yourself, Mrs. Peckover,” said Doctor Joyce; “and kindly7 give me your best attention to what I am about to say. Let me beg you, in the first place, to excuse Mr. Blyth’s odd behavior, which I see has startled and astonished you. But, however wildly he may talk, I assure you he means honorably and truthfully in all that he says. You will understand this better if you will let me temperately8 explain to you the proposal, which he has just made so abruptly9 and confusedly in his own words.”
“Proposal, sir!” exclaimed Mrs. Peckover faintly, looking more frightened than ever—“Proposal! Oh, sir! you don’t mean to say that you’re going to ask me to part from little Mary?”
“I will ask you to do nothing that your own good sense and kind heart may not approve,” answered the rector. “In plain terms then, and not to waste time by useless words of preface, my friend, Mr. Blyth, feels such admiration10 for your little Mary, and such a desire to help her, as far as may be, in her great misfortune, that he is willing and eager to make her future
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