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She herself left a vegetable stew ready for supper, safely simmering in a hay-box, and walked towards the potato field with Ellesborough.

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By now she had pieced it all together; and it seemed to Ellesborough that it had a morbid fascination for her.

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Ellesborough tried to cheer him, but without much success.

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But, after all, when it was told, what could Ellesborough do but pity her?

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The progress of the affair with Ellesborough made on Janet a curious and rather sinister impression, which she could hardly explain to herself.

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But in general the "ape and tiger," still surviving in the normal human being, had been really and effectively tamed in the Ellesborough race.

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Instead of sleep, she could do nothing but rehearse the scene with Ellesborough again and again.

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Ellesborough himself, no doubt, had knocked about the world more than most of his kindred, and had learnt to look at many things differently.

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The two girls then concluded that Captain Ellesborough had been causing trouble, as all men did, at some point; and being sympathetic little souls, they worked especially hard in the potato-field, and would not allow Rachel to carry the heavier baskets to the "clamp."

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"I should jolly well think so," said Ellesborough, looking kindly at the young girl.

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