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The People Of The Mist

CHAPTER XVII
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Still, there they are, and perhaps they prick your conscience.

But what harm have you done to me ?" "I told you," he answered, "on the second night after the slave camp was burnt, that I believed you to be man and wife.

I believe it yet, and have I not sinned doubly therefore in worshipping a woman who is wedded?
Still, I pray that as you are one before Heaven and the Church, so you may become one in heart and deed.

And when this is so, as I think that it will be, cherish her, Outram, for there is no such woman in the world, and for you she will turn the earth to heaven." "She might turn it to the other place; such things have happened," said Leonard moodily.

Then he stretched out his arm and grasped the priest's delicate hand.


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