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Diana of the Crossways

CHAPTER XIII
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Ink is my opium, and the pen my nigger, and he must dig up gold for me.

It is written.

Danvers, you can make ready to dress me when I ring.' Emma helped the beautiful woman to her dressing-gown and the step from her bed.

She had her thoughts, and went down to Redworth at the breakfast-table, marvelling that any husband other than a madman could cast such a jewel away.

The material loveliness eclipses intellectual qualities in such reflections.
'He must be mad,' she said, compelled to disburden herself in a congenial atmosphere; which, however, she infrigidated by her overflow of exclamatory wonderment--a curtain that shook voluminous folds, luring Redworth to dreams of the treasure forfeited.


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