“I should have been quite disappointed if I had not found you here still ,” said she repeatedly, with a strong emphasis on the word. “But I always thought I should . I was almost sure you would not leave London yet awhile; though you told me, you know, at Barton, that you should not stay above a month . But I thought, at the time, that you would most likely change your mind when it came to the point. It would have been such a great pity to have went away before your brother and sister came. And now to be sure you will be in no hurry to be gone. I am amazingly glad you did not keep to your word .”

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