[The Purchase Price by Emerson Hough]@TWC D-Link book
The Purchase Price

CHAPTER XXI
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But I don't see how a woman could care for a man who only cared for that,--what she saw in her mirror, don't you know ?" "Any price, for just that!" he said grimly.
"No, no! You would not.

Don't say that! I so much want you to be bigger than that." "The woman you see in your mirror would be cheap at any cost." "But a man even like yourself.

Sir, would be very cheap, if his price was such as you say.

No turncoat could win me--I'd love him more on his own side yonder threefold wall, _with_ his convictions, than on my side without them.

I couldn't be bought cheap as that, nor by a cheap man.


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