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The Avalanche

CHAPTER XII
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But I would have put you on your guard if I'd known." "Oh, it doesn't matter.

Even if Price doesn't find out about this, if he learns the other--who my father was, and that awful men have recognized my mother--I suppose he'll hate me, and in time I'll go back to Rouen--" "Now, you don't think as ill as that of him, do you?
He makes me so mad sometimes I could spit in his face, but if he's one thing he's true blue.
He's the straight masculine type with a streak of old romance that would make him love a woman the more, the sorrier he was for her, and the weaker she was--I mean so long as she was young.

After this, just get to work on your character, kid.

When you're thirty maybe he won't feel that it's his whole duty to protect you.

You'll never be hard and seasoned like me, nor able to take care of yourself.


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