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Is _that_ plain to you, little sister ?" "Yes, oh, yes, it is!" she murmured; "I am so happy, so proud--but I knew it was in your blood, Phil; I knew that you were merely hurt and stunned--badly hurt, but not fatally!--you could not be; no weaklings come from our race." "But still our race has always been law-abiding--observant of civil and religious law.

If I make myself free again, I take some laws into my own hands.".
"How do you mean ?" she asked.
"Well," he said grimly, "for example, I am forbidden, in some States, to marry again--" "But you _know_ there was no reason for _that_!" "Yes, I do happen to know; but still I am taking the liberty of disregarding the law if I do.