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The Crown of Life

CHAPTER IV
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My father thought, and after thinking, spoke.
'Madame, will you let me take your son to England, and find something for him to do ?' She screamed with delight.

'But will Thibaut consent ?' Thibaut had his patriotic scruples; but when he saw and heard his poor mother, he consented.

Madame Rossignol had a sister near by, with whom she could live.

And so on the spot it was settled." Piers hung on the speaker's lips; no tale had ever so engrossed him.
Indeed, it was charmingly told; with so much girlish sincerity, so much womanly feeling.
"No, that's not all.

My father went to his inn for the night.


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