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Jezebel’s Daughter

CHAPTER XXIII
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'I believe in you, Jack,' she said.

And I wouldn't even open my lips to answer her--I was so determined to be quiet.

Ha! ha! how you two fellows would have yelled, in my place!" He sat down again in his corner, delighted with his own picture of the two fellows who would have yelled in his place.
"And what did Mistress do with you when she brought you home ?" I asked.
His gaiety suddenly left him.

He lifted one of his hands, and waved it to and fro gently in the air.
"You are too loud, David," he said.

"All this part of it must be spoken softly--because all this part of it is beautiful, and kind, and good.
There was a picture in the room, of angels and their harps.


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