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The Lion’s Skin

CHAPTER I
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If I have suffered you to bear his name, it is to the end that it should remind you daily that you have no right to it, that you have no right to any name." When he said that he thrust his finger consciously into a raw wound.

He saw Justin wince, and with pitiless cunning he continued to prod that tender place until he had aggravated the smart of it into a very agony.
"That is what you owe your father; that is the full extent of what lies between you--that you are of those at whom the world is given to sneer and point scorn's ready finger." "None has ever dared," said Mr.Caryll.
"Because none has ever known.

We have kept the secret well.

You display no coat of arms that no bar sinister may be displayed.

But the time may come when the secret must out.


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