don't cross that bridge till you come to it

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In their shelter, Brion and Ulv crouched low and wondered why the attack didn't come.
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Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
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Babylas raised his pale face; he knew what was coming; it had come so many times before.
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He reached forward and took her hands, and if Mrs. Vivian had come in she would have seen him kneeling at her daughter's feet.
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