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The Evil Genius

CHAPTER III
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With that money I made my last attempt--I advertised for a situation as governess.

If Mr.Linley had not seen my advertisement, I might have starved in the streets.

When my aunt heard of it, she insisted on my begging her pardon before the whole school.

Do girls get half maddened by persecution?
If they do, I think I must have been one of those girls.
I refused to beg pardon; and I was dismissed from my situation without a character.

Will you think me very foolish?
I shut my eyes again, when I woke in my delicious bed to-day.


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