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The Four Feathers

CHAPTER XIV
10/23

He was speaking of you, and he said: 'She is of her country and more of her county.

I do not think she could be happy in any place which was not within reach of Donegal.' And when I remember that, it seems rather selfish that I should claim to keep you here at so much cost to you." "I was not thinking of that," Ethne exclaimed, "when I asked why we must wait.

That makes me out most selfish.

I was merely wondering why you preferred to wait, why you insist upon it.

For, of course, although one hopes and prays with all one's soul that you will get your sight back, the fact of a cure can make no difference." She spoke slowly, and her voice again had a ring of pleading.


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