[Love Eternal by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookLove Eternal CHAPTER XVI 23/25
Do you understand also that we have made two young people who should have been the supports of our old age desire above everything our deaths because we have given them cause to hate us, and since they are of the sort that keep their word, only by our deaths can they become free, or, at any rate, by mine? Well, it doesn't matter what you understand, you little bigot, but I know what I do." "I have done my duty," repeated Mr.Knight sullenly, "and I don't care what happens afterwards.
'_Fiat justita ruat coelum_,'" he added in the Latin tag. "Oh, yes.
Justice may say fie and the sky may be rude, and anything else may happen, but we've dished our lives and theirs, my friend, and--damn you! get out of my sight.
Rows I am accustomed to with Isobel and others, but this isn't a row, it's an earthquake; it's a catastrophe, for which I have to thank you.
Lord! how my mouth hurts, and I can't see out of my right eye.
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