[The People Of The Mist by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookThe People Of The Mist CHAPTER XVIII 8/20
You can leave me one and all if you like, but I shall go on.
I will not be made a fool of in this way." "None of us have any wish to be made fools of, Mr.Outram," said Juanna gently; "and, speaking for myself, I would far rather die at once than attempt a return journey just at present.
So now, Soa, perhaps you will stop croaking and tell us definitely what we must do to conciliate these charming countrymen of yours, whom we have come so far to spoil. Remember," she added with a flash of her grey eyes, "I am not to be played with by you, Soa.
In this matter the Deliverer's interests are my interests, and his ends my ends.
Together we stand or fall, together we live or die, and that shall be an unhappy hour for you, Soa, when you attempt to desert or betray us." "It is well, Shepherdess," she answered, "your will is my will, for I love you alone in the world, and all the rest I hate," and she glared at Leonard and Otter.
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