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The Emancipated

CHAPTER XV
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I almost believe you capable of saying, some day, that you took this step because I urged you to it.

I have no interest whatever in your future; our paths are separate.

Let this be the end of it." But it was very far from the end of it.

When the carriage stopped at Mrs.Gluck's, mutual reproaches were at their height.
"You shall not leave me yet, Madeline," said Clifford, as he alighted.
"Come to the other side of the road, and let us walk along for a few minutes.

You shall not go in, if I have to hold you by force." Madeline yielded, and in the light of the moon they walked side by side, continuing their dialogue.
"You are heartless! You have played with me from the first." "If so, I only treated you as you thought to treat me." "That you can attribute such baseness to me proves how incapable you are of distinguishing between truth and falsehood.


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