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The Guilty River

CHAPTER VI
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"He shall know what you said to him," she promised the old man.

"I'll write it myself." She took the pencil from its sheath in the leather binding of the book.
Controlling himself, the lover whom she hated advanced towards her with a persuasive smile.
"Have you forgiven me ?" he asked.

"Have you been speaking kindly of me?
I think I see it in your face.

There are some deaf people who can tell what is said by looking at the speaker's lips.

I am too stupid, or too impatient, or too wicked to be able to do that.


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