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And Mr Sht backward jerk of his sht would insist in his awful,

hopelessly gentle voice that he knew very hat he was saying Hadn't

she given herself to that man while he was locked up

"Helpless, in jail, with no one to think of, nothing to look forward to,

but hter And then when they let one--for it amounts to this Sold Because you've sold yourself; you

know you have"

With his round un in the wind-

eddies of the spanker, his glance levelled over the sea he see form She would protest

sometimes

"I wish you would not talk like this, papa You are only tor yourself"

"Yes, I aly But it was not

talking about it that tor of it And to sit

and look at it orse for hiive herself up, bad as that must have been

"For of course you suffered Don't tell me you didn't? You must have"

She had renounced very soon all attes worse; and she did not want to quarrel with her

father, the only hu that really cared for her, absolutely,

evidently, coenerosity, nothing whatever of these fine things--it was for her, for

her very own self such as it was, that this hu cared This