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Almayer's Folly

CHAPTER X
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Tie me up to a tree! Me!" he repeated, striking his breast violently.
Mrs.Almayer laughed tauntingly.
"And you salaamed and asked for mercy.

Men with arms by their side acted otherwise when I was young." "And where are they, the men of your youth?
You mad woman!" retorted Babalatchi, angrily.

"Killed by the Dutch.

Aha! But I shall live to deceive them.

A man knows when to fight and when to tell peaceful lies.
You would know that if you were not a woman." But Mrs.Almayer did not seem to hear him.


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