A Fair Fraud — page 254: what you’re looking at

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A Fair Fraud 243 ‘I advise you to tell him to wait six months, and then to come to you again, and if he is in the same mind then, why marry him, my dear, and have done with it! Go away now with your mother, and give hin your address, and ask him to wait six months before trying to see you again.’ ‘ But his father and mother—they will never consent.’ ‘Then do without their consent. Sit down and write him a note, and I will see that he gets it safely—only you must not see him now or wish him good-bye.’ Hester sat down and obeyed her. GORMGIOO