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The Portion of Labor

CHAPTER XXVII
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I wouldn't please him nor her enough.

If he's as bad as that, you're better off rid of him." Eva turned on her sister, and her calm broke up like ice under her fire of passion.
"Don't you say one word against him, not one word!" she shrieked, throwing off Fanny's hand.

"I won't hear one word against my husband." Then little Amabel joined in.

"Don't you say one word against my papa!" she cried, in her shrill, childish treble.

Then she sobbed convulsively, and pushed Ellen away.


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