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The Celt and Saxon

CHAPTER V
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So that was my brother Philip's luck! She's married! It's done; it's over, like death: no hope.
And this time it's against her father; it's against her faith.

There's the end of Philip! I could have prophesied it; I did; and when they broke, from her casting him off--true to her name! thought I.She cast him off, and she couldn't wait for him, and there's his heart broken.
And I ready to glorify her for a saint! And now she must have loved the man, or his title, to change her religion.

She gives him her soul! No praise to her for that: but mercy! what a love it must be.

Or else it's a spell.

But wasn't she rather one for flinging spells than melting?
Except that we're all of us hit at last, and generally by our own weapon.


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