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Still, it was possible; and if it were really the case that she entertained any stronger sentiment in his favour, it would certainly, as the Corporal had said, -- "be a most cruelsome thing that she shouldn't hev 'the man she wanted, pretickilarly when she had done so much for his sarcumstances."

The Sword and the Distaff: Or, "Fair, Fat, and Forty." A Story of the South, at the Close of the Revolution by the Author of "The Partisan," "Mellichampe," "Katharine Walton," Etc. Etc. 1852