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Eleanor

CHAPTER X
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It is insolent--brutal--but not to me! No, it is all honey to me! But to the truth--to our ideas .-- No!--I cannot suffer it.

I take it back!--I bear the consequences.' And with trembling fingers, he took a draft letter from his pocket, and handed it, with the newspaper, to Manisty.
Manisty read the letter, and returned it, frowning.
'Yes--you have been abominably treated--no doubt of that.

But have you counted the cost?
You know my point of view! It's one episode, for me, in a world-wide struggle.

Intellectually I am all with you--strategically, all with them.

They can't give way! The smallest breach lets in the flood.


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