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SPEAK I must: I had been trodden on severely, and MUST turn: but

how? What strength had I to dart retaliation at ies and launched them in this blunt sentence "I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I

declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in

the world except John Reed; and this book about the liar, you iana, for it is she who tells lies, and not

I"

Mrs Reed's hands still lay on her work inactive: her eye of ice

continued to dwell freezingly on mine

"What more have you to say?" she asked, rather in the tone in which

a person e than such as is

ordinarily used to a child

That eye of hers, that voice stirred every antipathy I had Shaking

froovernable excitelad you are no relation ofas I live I will never corown up; and if any one asks me how I liked you, and how you

treated ht of you makes me sick, and

that you treated me with miserable cruelty"