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Eve’s Ransom

CHAPTER IX
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If it's disagreeable to you, tell me, and I will go my own way at once." "I have no wish to send you away," she answered, with a smile of self-possession.

"But all the same, I think it would be wiser if you did go." "Ah, then, if you leave me to judge for myself----! You look tired this evening.

I have something to say to you; let us turn for a moment up this byway." "No, let us walk straight on." "I beg of you!--Now you are kind.

I am going to dine at a restaurant.
Usually, I eat my dinner at home--a bad dinner and a cheerless room.

On such an evening as this I can't go back and appease hunger in that animal way.


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