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Jeanne of the Marshes

CHAPTER VIII
10/17

I should like you to know that nothing would ever induce me to marry any one unless they knew the truth.

I will not go on accepting invitations and visiting people's houses, many of whom have only asked me because they think that I am very rich.

Every one must know the truth at once." "And how, may I ask, do you propose to live ?" the Princess asked quietly.
"If there is nothing left at all of my money," Jeanne said, "I will work.

If it is the worst which comes, I will go back to the convent and teach the children." The Princess laughed softly.
"Jeanne," she said, "you are talking like a positive idiot.

It is because you have had no time to think this thing out.


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