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Beautiful Joe

CHAPTER XXXV
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To think of that delicate woman and her death agony." He threw himself in a chair and buried his face in his hands.
"Where was she?
How did it happen?
Was her husband saved, and Charlie ?" said Mrs.Morris, in a broken voice.
"Yes; Charlie and Mr.Montague are safe.

Charlie will recover from it.
Montague's life is done.

You know his love for his wife.

Oh, Margaret! when will men cease to be fools?
What does the Lord think of them when they say, 'Am I my brother's keeper ?' And the other poor creatures burned to death--their lives are as precious in his sight as Mrs.
Montague's." Mr.Morris looked so weak and ill that Mrs.Morris, like a sensible woman, questioned him no further, but made a fire and got him some hot tea.
Then she made him lie down on the sofa, and she sat by him till day-break, when she persuaded him to go to bed.

I followed her about, and kept touching her dress with my nose.


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