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The Fighting Chance

CHAPTER IX CONFESSIONS
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Who is she ?" "You won't ask me, will you ?" "No.

Are you sorry that I am in love with you ?" His arms unclasped her body, and he stepped back, facing her.
"Are you ?" she asked violently.
"No." "You speak like a man," she said tremulously.

"Am I to be permitted to adore you in peace, then--decently, and in peace ?" "Don't speak that way, Leila.

I--there is no woman, no friend, I care for as much as I do you.

It is easy, I think, for a woman, like you, to make a man care for her.


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