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ENOCH ARDEN.
Annie—for I am rich and well-to-do.Now let me put the boy and girl to school:This is the favour that I came to ask.’
 Then Annie with her brows against the wallAnswer’d ‘I cannot look you in the face;I seem so foolish and so broken down.When you came in my sorrow broke me down;And now I think your kindness breaks me down;But Enoch lives; that is borne in on me:He will repay you: money can be repaid;Not kindness such as yours.’
And Philip ask’d‘Then you will let me, Annie?’
There she turn’d,She rose, and fixt her swimming eyes upon him,And dwelt a moment on his kindly face,Then calling down a blessing on his head
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