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A Terrible Temptation

CHAPTER III
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Most of them part enemies, but he and I part friends and well-wishers." "And you throw _me_ over as if I was nobody," said Richard, white with anger.
"Why, what are you to me ?" said the Somerset.

"Oh, I see.

You thought to make a cat's-paw of me.

Well, you won't, then." "In other words, you have been bought off." "No, I have not.

I am not to be bought by anybody--and I am not to be insulted by you, you ruffian! How dare you come here and affront a lady in her own house--a lady whose shoestrings your betters are ready to tie, you brute?
If you want to be a landed proprietor, go and marry some ugly old hag that's got it, and no eyesight left to see you're no gentleman.


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