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The New Magdalen

CHAPTER VIII
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Now, at last, she knew him once more.

Now he was the man, indeed, whom she had expected to see.

Unconsciously she sat listening, with her eyes fixed on his face, with his heart hanging on his words, in the very attitude of the by-gone day when she had heard him for the first time! "I did all I could to plead for the helpless ones," he resumed.

"I went round among the holders of the land to say a word for the tillers of the land.

'These patient people don't want much' (I said); 'in the name of Christ, give them enough to live on!' Political Economy shrieked at the horrid proposal; the Laws of Supply and Demand veiled their majestic faces in dismay.


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