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A Daughter of the Snows

CHAPTER XVII
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They are for the swine who without them would wallow deeper.

The weak must obey or be crushed; not so with the strong.

The mass is nothing; the individual everything; and it is the individual, always, that rules the mass and gives the law.

A fig for what the world says! If the Welse should procreate a bastard line this day, it would be the way of the Welse, and you would be a daughter of the Welse, and in the face of hell and heaven, of God himself, we would stand together, we of the one blood, Frona, you and I." "You are larger than I," she whispered, kissing his forehead, and the caress of her lips seemed to him the soft impact of a leaf falling through the still autumn air.
And as the heat of the room ebbed away, he told of her foremother and of his, and of the sturdy Welse who fought the great lone fight, and died, fighting, at Treasure City..


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