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The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

CHAPTER XX
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So pure and sweet they are.

I love the nuns for having taught you." "Ah, Richard! See! we forget! Ah!" she lifts up her face pleadingly, as to plead against herself, "even if your father forgives my birth, he will not my religion.

And, dearest, though I would die for you I cannot change it.

It would seem that I was denying God; and--oh! it would make me ashamed of my love." "Fear nothing!" He winds her about with his arm.

"Come! He will love us both, and love you the more for being faithful to your father's creed.
You don't know him, Lucy.


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