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The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

CHAPTER XXI
11/19

Your passions are violent.

You have had a taste of revenge.
You have seen, in a small way, that the pound of flesh draws rivers of blood.

But there is now in you another power.

You are mounting to the table-land of life, where mimic battles are changed to real ones.

And you come upon it laden equally with force to create and to destroy." He deliberated to announce the intelligence, with deep meaning: "There are women in the world, my son!" The young man's heart galloped back to Raynham.
"It is when you encounter them that you are thoroughly on trial.


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