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Chapter 97 Misjudgments Confronted

Author: Clare
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February of the fourth year brought a letter from a man Ernest had not thought about in two years.

The man's name was Charles Tennant, and he had been, during the years of the marriage, one of Ernest's closer professional acquaintances — not a friend in the full sense, Ernest had not had many of those, but someone with whom he had regularly shared dinners and industry events and the kind of conversation that was more substantive than networking but less personal than friendship. Charles had kno
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