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An Eye for an Eye

CHAPTER VI
12/23

If it were only myself, I would give up all to her.

I would, by heaven.

But I cannot sacrifice the family.

As to solemn promises, did I not swear to my uncle that I would not disgrace the family by such a marriage?
Almost the last word that I spoke to him was that.

Am I to be untrue to him?
There are times in which it seems impossible that a man should do right." "There are times in which a man may be too blind to see the right," said Jack,--sparing his brother in that he did not remind him that those dilemmas always come from original wrong-doing.
"I think I am resolved not to marry her," said Fred.
"If I were in your place I think I should marry her," said Jack;--"but I will not speak with certainty even of myself." "I shall not.


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