[The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow by Anna Katharine Green]@TWC D-Link bookThe Mystery of the Hasty Arrow BOOK III 58/157
We do not approve her course, whatever reasons she may have for it.
At the same time, I feel bound to assure you that to her they are all-sufficient.
She is a conscientious woman, with many fine qualities, and when she says as she did to us, 'It is my duty to flee,' and again as she bade us a final adieu, 'I will die rather than speak a word of what is on my mind,' I know that it is no small matter which sends her wandering about like this." "I should think not.
A mother to leave her daughter to be exposed at the morgue, and never intervene to protect her from this ignominy or to see that she has proper burial after that dread display is over!" "I know--it was dreadful--and we! Do you not think we felt the horror of this also ?" "Your own flesh and blood--that is, your husband's.
I wonder you could stand it." "We had promised.
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