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Denzil Quarrier

CHAPTER XX
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You know that.

It was natural you should wish to speak to me; but why do you pretend to think that we can be anything to each other?
You have a right to my money--it shall be yours at once." He stamped, and his eyes shot anger.
"What do you take me for?
Do you suppose I shall consent to give you up for money?
Tell me what I have asked.

Does that man know your history ?" "Of course he knows it--everything." "And he thinks I shall never succeed in finding you out! Well, he is mistaken, you see--things of this kind are always found out, as you and he might have known.

You can't do wrong and live all your life as if you were innocent." The admonition came rather inappropriately from him, but it shook Lilian in spite of her better sense.
"It can't be changed," she exclaimed.

"It can't be undone." "That's all nonsense!" "I will die rather than leave him!" Hot jealousy began to rage in him.


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