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Jezebel’s Daughter

CHAPTER XXIII
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The fact is, I want to do everything for her myself.

I shall never be quite happy till I'm the only servant she has about her." "Ah, yes," said Fritz, good-naturedly sympathizing with him.

"You're a grateful little man; you remember what Mrs.Wagner has done for you." "Remember ?" Jack reported scornfully.

"I say, if you can't talk more sensibly than that, you had better hold your tongue." He turned and appealed to me.

"Did you ever hear anything like Fritz?
He seems to think it wonderful that I remember the day when she took me out of Bedlam!" "Ah, Jack, that was a great day in your life, wasn't it ?" "A great day?
Oh, good Lord in Heaven! where are there words that are big enough to speak about it ?" He sprang to his feet, wild with the sudden tumult of his own recollections.


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