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"You may hate nore me, as you have these three years"

"It was your fault; your wish--as well as ain? When the news came that you had quit your

profession, and just at the time you had lost all your father's

fortune and your own, had turned your back and run ahen you

should have stayed and fought--well, do you think a girl cares for

that sort ofin this world He

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"Not even if he has nothing to work for?"

"No, not even then There are plenty of girls in the world----"

"One"

--"And a man mustn't throay his life for any one woht He has his work to do, his place to make and hold That's what

a woman wants in a et all the years of off-and-on, all the time asted, don't

you know? And because I am, for a little while, in your hands, you

talk to ht to be ashamed You threaten me,

a woman You even almost coh, indeed, you were a buccaneer, and I, indeed, in your

power absolutely If I did not know you----"

"You do not Forget the ly, and yet er rise