Romance Ward, Mary Augusta: Miss Bretherton. v1. 8 Jun 2014

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Mary Augusta Ward née Arnold; (11 June 1851 – 24 March 1920), was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward.

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She raised herself suddenly, and, as he knelt beside her, he felt her warm breath on his cheek, and a tear dropped on his hands, which her own were blindly and timidly seeking.
‘Oh!’ she whispered, or rather sobbed, ‘I never dreamt of it. I never thought of anything like this. But—do not leave me again. I could not bear it.’

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