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Well, I feel it only right to tell you
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that Mr Bates' leaving was not selfish.
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- Quite the reverse. - It felt selfish to me.
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As for the wretched Anna, bedizened with dishonest promises.
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Mr Bates left because had he not done so,
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his wife was planning to engulf this house in scandal.
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Scandal?
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- What scandal? - The point is, My Lord,
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Mrs Bates would have made Downton notorious.
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The price of her silence was her husband's return.
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But I must know what story she was planning to tell.
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I'm sorry, My Lord, I could not speak of it