[The Purchase Price by Emerson Hough]@TWC D-Link bookThe Purchase Price CHAPTER XXI 22/54
Suppose that ?--Why, suppose I had cared, and that I had found after all that there was no hope? There comes in conscience, Sir, there comes in honor." "Then, in such case--" "In such case any woman would hate a man.
Stress may win some women, but deceit never did." "I have not deceived you." "Do you wish to do so now ?" "No.
It's just the contrary.
Haven't I said you must go? But since you must go, and since I must pay, I'm willing, if you wish, to bare my life to the very bone, to the heart before you, now--right now." She pondered for a moment.
"Of course, I knew there was something. There, in that room--in that wardrobe--those were her garments--of another--another woman.
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