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Smith and the Pharaohs, and Other Tales

CHAPTER VIII
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"Did I marry you for this?
I have given you everything, my name, the wealth my old aunt left to me; you, you the peasant's child, the evil woman whom I tried to lift up because I loved you from the first." "Then you were a fool for your pains, for such as I can't be lifted up." "And you," he went on, unheeding, "go back to your mire and the herd of your fellow-swine.

You ask me how I dare.

Go on with these ways, and I tell you I'll dare a good deal more before I've done.

I'll be rid of you if I must break your neck and hang for it." "You can't be rid of me.

I'm your lawful wife, and you can prove nothing against me since I married.


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