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Jezebel’s Daughter

CHAPTER XXIV
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From Germany to France; from France to England--and so to London, and so under the feet of her Highness's horses, and so to Bedlam, and so to Mistress.

Oh, Lord help me, I'm forgetting the bell! good-bye, all of you.

Let me be in my corner till the bell rings." Madame Fontaine glanced at me compassionately, and touched her bead.
"Come to my sitting-room, Jack," she said, "and have something to eat and drink, and tell me your adventures after you left Wurzburg." She favored him with her sweetest smile, and spoke in her most ingratiating tones.

That objectionable tendency of mine to easily suspect others was, I suppose, excited once more.

At any rate, I thought the widow showed a very remarkable anxiety to conciliate Jack.


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