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The Purchase Price

CHAPTER XIX
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Men will fight for that again, here, on this soil, not under man-made laws, but under a higher and greater law.
You love my body.

You do not love my mind.

I love them, both.
Yes, I am student of the law.

Humanity! Is it not larger than we?
Is this narrow, selfish life of yours all you can see--of life--of this law ?" "Yes," said Dunwody, grinning painfully.

"I reckon maybe it was one of those 'higher law' abolitionists that shot me!" "Shot?
What do you mean ?" Forgetting philosophy, she turned swiftly.


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