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Within the Tides

CHAPTER XII
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But he will return in the morning.

Her _novio_! And she is an orphan--the child of poor Christian people.

She lives with us for the love of God, for the love of God." The orphan crouching on the corner of the hearth had been looking at Byrne.

He thought that she was more like a child of Satan kept there by these two weird harridans for the love of the Devil.

Her eyes were a little oblique, her mouth rather thick, but admirably formed; her dark face had a wild beauty, voluptuous and untamed.


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