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Pearl-Maiden

CHAPTER I
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See, I have poison hidden here in my hair.

Let us drink of it and be done: it is swift and painless." "Nay, Nou, it would not be right.

I may lift no hand against my own life, or if perchance I may, I have to think of another life." "If you die, the unborn child must die also.

To-night or to-morrow, what does it matter ?" "Sufficient to the day is the evil thereof.

Who knows?
To-morrow Agrippa may be dead, not us, and then the child might live.


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