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Fair Margaret

CHAPTER XIX
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Be silent, or I will unlock the door and call your own people and repeat your monstrous talk to them." And she drew herself to her full height and stood over him on the bed.
Morella, his first rage spent, looked at her reflectively, and not without a certain measure of homage.
"I think," he remarked, "that if he did not happen to be in love with another woman and to believe that he had married her, you, my good Betty, would make a useful wife to any man who wished to get on in the world.

I understood you to say that the door is locked, and if I might hazard a guess, you have the key, as also you happen to have a dagger.
Well, I find the air in this place close, and I want to go _out_." "Where to ?" asked Betty.
"Let us say, to join Inez." "What," she asked, "would you already be running after that woman again?
Do you already forget that you are married ?" "It seems that I am not to be allowed to forget it.

Now, let us bargain.
I wish to leave Granada for a while, and without scandal.

What are your terms?
Remember that there are two to which I will not consent.

I will not stop here with you, and you shall not accompany me.


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