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The White Ladies of Worcester

CHAPTER LV
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He knows I said how that naught would suffice me but a divine vision.

Also he knoweth well the heart of a nun; and when I asked him if the heart of a nun could ever become as the heart of other women, he did most piously ejaculate: 'Heaven forbid ?'" Little crinkles of merriment showed faintly at the corners of her eyes.
The Bishop would have seen them, and smiled responsive.

But the sad Knight saw them not.
"Mora," he said, "I leave thee free.

I hold thee to no vows made through falsehood and fraud.

I rate thy peace of mind before mine own content; thy true well-being, before mine own desires.


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