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Freckles

CHAPTER XIV
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Again and again I've had the feeling with her, if I didn't entirely forget it, that she didn't see it was gone and I must he pointing it out to her.
Her touch on it was so sacred-like, at times since I've caught meself looking at the awful thing near like I was proud of it, sir.

If I had been born your son she couldn't be traiting me more as her equal, and she can't help knowing you ain't truly me father.

Nobody can know the homeliness or the ignorance of me better than I do, and all me lack of birth, relatives, and money, and what's it all to her ?" Freckles stepped back, squared his shoulders, and with a royal lift of his head looked straight into the Boss's eyes.
"You saw her in the beautiful little room of her, and you can't be forgetting how she begged and plead with you for me.

She touched me body, and 'twas sanctified.

She laid her lips on my brow, and 'twas sacrament.


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