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Jezebel’s Daughter

CHAPTER XIII
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Poverty has no terrors for me while I have health to work.

But I cannot face the idea of my child's life being blighted, because you choose to believe the slanders that are spoken of her mother.

For the third time I ask you to grant me an audience, and to hear me in my own defense." There she paused, and looked over my shoulder.
"I think that is enough," she said.

"Do you see anything objectionable in my letter ?" How could I object to the letter?
From beginning to end, it was strongly, and yet moderately, expressed.

I resigned my place at the desk, and the widow wrote the fair copy, with her own hand.


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