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"Let us go on board We'll talk there," he said "And you will have to

listen to me For whatever happens, no o"

You can't say that ( else but go on board It was the appointed business of that

the drive he was silent Anthony was the last , to scorn and despise even

deserved misfortune He was ready to take old de Barral--the convict--on

his daughter's valuation without the slightest reserve But love like

his, though it may drive one into risky folly by the proud consciousness

of its own strength, has a sagacity of its own And now, as if lifted up

into a higher and serene region by its purpose of renunciation, it gave

him leisure to reflect for the first time in these last few days He

said to himself: "I don't know that man She does not know him either

She was barely sixteen when they locked him up She was a child What

will he say? What will he do? No, he concluded, I cannot leave her

behind with that rave