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One of Our Conquerors

CHAPTER XXVIII
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That I know.

I would walk into that water first, and take Mrs.Worrell's plunge:--the last bath; a thorough cleanser for a woman! Only, she was a good woman and didn't want it, as we--as lots of us do:--to wash off all recollection of having met a man! Your mother would not like me to call you Nesta! I have never begged you to call me Judith.

Damnable name!' Mrs.Marsett revelled in the heat of the curse on it, as a relief to torture of the breast, until a sense of the girl's alarmed hearing sent the word reverberating along her nerves and shocked her with such an exposure of our Shaggy wild one on a lady's lips.

She murmured: 'Forgive me,' and had the passion to repeat the epithet in shrieks, and scratch up male speech for a hatefuller; but the twitch of Nesta's brows made her say: 'Do pardon me.

I did something in Scripture.


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