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The March Family Trilogy

PART FIFTH
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I know that your husband--that Mr.March was there; I read his testimony; and I wished to ask him--to ask him--" She stopped and looked distractedly about.

"But what folly! He must have said everything he knew--he had to." Her eyes wandered to him from his wife, on whom she had kept them with instinctive tact.
"I said everything--yes," he replied.

"But if you would like to know--" "Perhaps I had better tell you something first.

I had just parted with him--it couldn't have been more than half an hour--in front of Brentano's; he must have gone straight to his death.

We were talking, and I--I said, Why didn't some one go among the strikers and plead with them to be peaceable, and keep them from attacking the new men.


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