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"You see, my love," proceeded Mrs. Harper, in a smooth, insinuating tone, "it is not _every one_ who would take you back under the circumstances; " and she paused, and peered at the girl over her spectacles with a significant air. (The circumstances of five hundred pounds, thought her listener bitterly.) "Will you give me your word of honour that you have not been doing anything -- unbecoming -- anything that -- that -- would reflect on your reputation? My dear, you need not look so red and indignant. I'm only an old woman. I mean no offence."
"I have done nothing to be ashamed of, or which I shall ever blush for or regret," rejoined Madeline, impressively; "and to that I can give my word of honour. But, Mrs. Harper, you ask strange questions -- and I am no longer at school."