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The Magic City

CHAPTER XII
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You've never been a servant, to see other people get all the fat and you all the bones.

What you think it's like to know if you'd just been born in a gentleman's mansion instead of in a model workman's dwelling you'd have been brought up as a young lady and had the openwork silk stockings and the lace on your under-petticoats.' 'You go too deep for me,' said Caesar, with the ghost of a smile.

'I now pronounce your sentence.

But life has pronounced on you a sentence worse than any I can give you.

Nobody loves you.' 'Oh, you old silly,' said the Pretenderette in a burst of angry tears, 'don't you see that's just why everything's happened ?' 'You are condemned,' said Caesar calmly, 'to make yourself beloved.


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