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The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne

CHAPTER III
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"No money and nothing at all but this." She designated her dress.

"Isn't it ugly ?" "It is decidedly not becoming," I admitted.
"Well, what must I do?
You tell me and I do it.

If you don't tell me, I must die." She leaned back placidly, having thus put upon my shoulders the responsibility of her existence.

I did not know which to admire more, her cool assurance or the stoic fortitude with which she faced dissolution.
"I can give you some money to keep you going for a day or two," said I, "but as for finding Harry, without knowing his name--" "After all I don't want so very much to find him," said this amazing young person.

"He made me stay in my cabin all the time I was in the steamer.


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