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I WAS promised to William, in a manner of speaking, close upon seven / year. What I mean to say is, when he was nigh upon fourteen, and was / to go away to his uncle in Somerset to learn farming, he gave me a / kiss and half of a broken sixpence, and said --
'Kate, I shall never think of any girl but you, and you must never / think of any chap but me.'