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Eve’s Ransom

CHAPTER XXVII
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We have both learnt to speak another language--you no less than I.Let me hear a word such as you used to speak.

I know you despise me unutterably." "You are quite mistaken.

I admire you very much." "What--my skill?
Or my dress ?" "Everything.

You have become precisely what you were meant to be." "Oh, the scorn of that!" "I beg you not to think it for a moment.

There was a time when I might have found a foolish pleasure in speaking to you with sarcasm.


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