[Tracy Park by Mary Jane Holmes]@TWC D-Link bookTracy Park CHAPTER XXIII 11/16
Did you think I would forget it ?' 'No,' Jerry answered.
'I knew you would not.
I only wanted to be sure, because he trusted it to me, and not to have sent it would have been mean, and a sneak, and a lie, and a steal.
Don't you think so ?' She emphasized the 'steal,' and the 'lie,' and the 'sneak,' and the 'mean,' with a kick that made the horse jump a little and quicken his steps. 'Yes,' Frank assented; it would be all she affirmed, and more too, and the man who could do such a thing was wholly unworthy the respect of any one, and ought to be punished to the full extent of the law. 'That's so,' Jerry said, with another emphatic kick and a slight tightening of her arm around the conscience-stricken man, who wondered if he should ever reach the cottage and be free from the clasp of those arms, which seemed to him like bands of fire burning to his soul.
'I'd never speak to him again,' Jerry continued, 'and Mr.Arthur wouldn't either.
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