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Excerpt from The Deserter, and From the Ranks: Two Novels
Nellie was pledged, therefore, and this youth in the Pullman was not one of those fellows in buttons, so far as Mrs. Rayner knew, but she was ready to warn him off, and meant to do so, until, to her surprise, She saw that he gave no symptom of a desire to approach. By noon of the second day she was as determined to extract from him some Sign of interest as she had been determined to resent it. I can in no wise explain or account for this. The fact is stated without remark. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
