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For the Term of His Natural Life

PROLOGUE
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He wanted money, and he sold you.

I paid the price he asked, but there was nothing of your cousin, my Lord Bellasis and Wotton, in the bond." "Spare me, sir, spare me!" said Lady Ellinor faintly.
"Spare you! Ay, you have spared me, have you not?
Look ye," he cried, in sudden fury, "I am not to be fooled so easily.

Your family are proud.
Colonel Wade has other daughters.

Your lover, my Lord Bellasis, even now, thinks to retrieve his broken fortunes by marriage.

You have confessed your shame.


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