I Forbid the Banns! — page 344: what you’re looking at

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334 “¥ FORBID THE BANNS!” smooth surfaces, a longing seized her to return to her old home among the blue gums and the interminable pastures that she knew so well. Why had she ever left that land? People had laughed and shaken their heads on hearing of her intention to travel, and to learn by observation what life in various parts of the world meant. They had been right when they had suggested in their own way, and so far aS anyone can suggest anything to a young woman with an income of twelve thousand a year, that she had no busi- ness to set out on a search of this nature. It had come to this with her. Eomicbooksico