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The New Magdalen

CHAPTER XIX
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I am glad of it; I shall have the joy of exposing you myself before the whole house.

I shall be the blessed means of casting you back on the streets.

Oh! it will be almost worth all I have gone through to see you with a policeman's hand on your arm, and the mob pointing at you and mocking you on your way to jail!" This time the sting struck deep; the outrage was beyond endurance.

Mercy gave the woman who had again and again deliberately insulted her a first warning.
"Miss Roseberry," she said, "I have borne without a murmur the bitterest words you could say to me.

Spare me any more insults.


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