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A Prince of Sinners

CHAPTER XII
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He rather affected me the other way." She was suddenly graver.
"It is foolish of me," she remarked.

"You will think so too, when I tell you that my only reason is because of a likeness." "A likeness!" he repeated.
She nodded.
"He is exactly like a man who was once a friend of my father's, and who did him a great deal of harm.

My father was much to blame, I know, but this man had a great influence over him, and a most unfortunate one.
Now don't you think I'm absurd ?" "I think it is a little rough on Lord Arranmore," he answered, "don't you ?" "It would be if my likes or dislikes made the slightest difference to him," she answered.

"As it is, I don't suppose it matters." "Was this in England ?" he asked.
She shook her head.
"No, it was abroad--in Montreal.

I really must go to Mrs.Seventon.
She looks terribly bored." Brooks made no effort to detain her.


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