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Marion Arleigh’s Penance

CHAPTER XIV
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You shall publish them, and I will make all England ring with the story of your infamy.

I will make every honest man loathe you." "You cannot," said Allan Lyster.
"I can.

Englishmen like fair play.

I will tell all England how you took advantage of a girl's youth and inexperience, above all, of the fact of her being an orphan, to beguile her into making you a promise of marriage, and how since you have traded, you coward, on her weakness, on her love for her husband, on the best part of her nature; and I will tell my story so honestly, so well, that every honest man shall hate you.

You may have frightened my poor wife with shadows, you cannot so frighten me.


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