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Sandra Belloni

CHAPTER XXVI
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Why shouldn't I sleep?
Child's folly!" Though he spoke so, his brain was in strings to his timorous ticking nerves; and he thought that it would be well to propitiate her and get her to utter some words that would not haunt his pillow.
"My dear girl! it's not my doing.

I like you.

I wish you well and happy.
Very fond of you;--blame circumstances, not me." Then he murmured: "Are black spots on the eyelids a bad sign?
I see big flakes of soot falling in a dark room." Emilia's mated look fleeted.

"You come between us, sir, because I have no money ?" "I tell you it's the boy's only chance to make his hit now." Mr.Pole stamped his foot angrily.
"And you make my Cornelia marry, though she loves another, as Wilfrid loves me, and if they do not obey you they are to be beggars! Is it you who can pray?
Can you ever have good dreams?
I saved my father from the sin, by leaving him.

He wished to sell me.


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