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Conscience

CHAPTER VIII
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You know very well that I am a rebel, and do not submit tamely." She rose, and taking his hand, pressed it closely in her own.
"You must stay in Paris," she said.

"Pardon me for having insisted that you could live in the country.

I thought more of myself than of you, of our love and our marriage.

It was an egotistic thought, a bad thought.
A way must be found, no matter what it costs, to enable you to continue your work." "But how to find it?
Do you think I have not tried everything ?" He related his visits to Jardine, his solicitations, prayers, and also his request of a loan from Glady, and his visit to Caffie.
"Caffie!" she cried.

"What made you think of going to Caffie ?" "I went partly because you had often spoken of him." "But I spoke of him to you as the most wicked of men, capable of anything and everything that is bad." "And partly, also, because I knew from one of my patients that he lends to those of whom he can make use." "What did he say to you ?" "That it was probable he would not be able to find any one who would lend what I wished, but he would try to find some one, and would give me an answer tomorrow evening.


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