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Mrs. Warren’s Daughter

CHAPTER XV
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I'm leavin' my German stock as it was, but I'm puttin' Forty thousand pounds--I've got Sixty thousand altogether--all yours some day--into Canadian Pacifics and Royal Mail--people 'll always want steamships--and New Zealand Five per cents.

I don't like the look of things in old England nor yet on the Continent.

Now me time's up.

Keep up your heart, old girl; it'll soon be over, specially if you don't play the fool and rile the prison people or start that silly hunger strike and ruin your digestion.

G--good-bye; and G-God b-bless you, my darlin'" added Mrs.Warren relapsing into tears and the conventional prayer, of common humanity, which always hopes there _may_ be a pitiful Deity, somewhere in Cosmos.
Going out into the corridor, she attempted to press a sovereign into the wardress's hard palm.


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