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A Life’s Morning

CHAPTER XII
19/24

Go home and think about it.' It is useless.

I have thought.

If you think still to make me yield by this fear, it is better that you should act at once.

I will tell you If I were free, if I had the power to give myself to you in marriage, it would make your threat of no more avail.

I love my father; to you I cannot say more than that; but though I would give my life to save his from ruin, I could not give--my father would not wish me, oh never!--my woman's honour.


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