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The Lion and The Mouse

CHAPTER XV
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I have always appealed to your better nature by telling you the truth, and in your heart you know that I am speaking the truth now." "Go!" he commanded.
"Yes, let us go, Shirley!" said Jefferson.
"No, Jeff, I came here alone and I'm going alone!" "You are not.

I shall go with you.

I intend to make you my wife!" Ryder laughed scornfully.
"No," cried Shirley.

"Do you think I'd marry a man whose father is as deep a discredit to the human race as your father is?
No, I wouldn't marry the son of such a merciless tyrant! He refuses to lift his voice to save my father.

I refuse to marry his son!" She turned on Ryder with all the fury of a tiger: "You think if you lived in the olden days you'd be a Caesar or an Alexander.


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