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Erema

CHAPTER XVII
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Why, you can not be contemptuous even to me!" "I should hope not.

I should earn your contempt, if I could." "There, you are ready to cry at the thought.

Erema, do not mistake yourself.

Remember that your father would never have wished it--would have given his life ten thousand times over to prevent it.

Why did he bring you to this remote, inaccessible part of the world except to save you from further thought of evil?
He knew that we listen to no rumors here, no social scandals, or malignant lies; but we value people as we find them.


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