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The Octopus

CHAPTER IV
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"Is it really true?
Do you mean every word of it?
And you are sorry and you WILL be good to me if I will be your wife?
You will be my dear, dear husband ?" The tears sprang to Annixter's eyes.

He took her in his arms and held her there for a moment.

Never in his life had he felt so unworthy, so undeserving of this clean, pure girl who forgave him and trusted his spoken word and believed him to be the good man he could only wish to be.

She was so far above him, so exalted, so noble that he should have bowed his forehead to her feet, and instead, she took him in her arms, believing him to be good, to be her equal.

He could think of no words to say.


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