[The Long Night by Stanley Weyman]@TWC D-Link bookThe Long Night CHAPTER IX 10/29
He had had time to think, and he found the burden laid upon him heavy.
"I do not know," he answered, "that I have any right to speak to you." "Right!" she cried; and let her bitterness have way in that word. "Right! Does any stay for that where I am concerned? Or ask my leave, or crave my will, sir? Right? You have the same right to flout and jeer and scorn me, the same right to watch and play the spy on me, to hearken at my door, and follow me, that they have! Ay, and the same right to bid me come and go, and answer at your will, that others have! Do you scruple a little at beginning ?" she continued mockingly.
"It will wear off.
It will come easy by-and-by! For you are like the others!" "No!" "You are as the others! You begin as they began!" she repeated, giving the reins to her indignation.
"The day you came, last night even, I thought you different.
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