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Diana of the Crossways

CHAPTER XII
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Let him go his ways, do his darkest, or repent.

But return to the roof of the "basest of men," who was guilty of "the unpardonable cowardice"?
You expect me to be superhuman.

When I consent to that, I shall be out of my woman's skin, which he has branded.

Go back to him!' She was taken with a shudder of head and limbs.

'No; I really have the power of pardoning, and I am bound to; for among my debts to him, this present exemption, that is like liberty dragging a chain, or, say, an escaped felon wearing his manacles, should count.


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