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The Light That Failed

CHAPTER IX
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Torp, you should have handed her over to a policeman for presuming to faint in a respectable house.

Poor little wretch! Look at the face! There isn't an ounce of immorality in it.

Only folly,--slack, fatuous, feeble, futile folly.

It's a typical head.

D'you notice how the skull begins to show through the flesh padding on the face and cheek-bone ?' 'What a cold-blooded barbarian it is! Don't hit a woman when she's down.
Can't we do anything?
She was simply dropping with starvation.
She almost fell into my arms, and when she got to the food she ate like a wild beast.


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