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The Emancipated

CHAPTER I
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He is irreclaimable; the worst character that ever came under my notice; he shall not set foot on the premises.
If he is in want, he has only himself to blame.

I do not like to think of his wife suffering, but it is the attribute of sins such as his that they involve the innocent with the guilty; and then she has shown herself so wretchedly weak.

Try, however, to help her secretly if her distress becomes too acute.
"It was impertinent in Mrs.Walker to make such reference to me in public.

This is the result of my absence and helplessness.

I shall write to her--two lines." A flush had risen to her cheek, and in adding the last two words she all but pierced through the thin note-paper.


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