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The New Magdalen

CHAPTER XX
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She has seen, and she has heard." He believed that he had silenced her.

He had simply furnished her sharp tongue with a new sting.
"_You_ will hear, and _you_ will see, when my proofs come from Canada," she retorted.

"You will hear that your wife has stolen my name and my character! You will see your wife dismissed from this house!" Mercy turned on her with an uncontrollable outburst of passion.
"You are mad!" she cried.
Lady Janet caught the electric infection of anger in the air of the room.

She, too, turned on Grace.

She, too, said it: "You are mad!" Horace followed Lady Janet.


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