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The Celt and Saxon

CHAPTER XIX
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She struck a light to try her poet on the shelf of the elect of earth by her bed, and she read, and read flatness.

Not his the fault! She revered him too deeply to lay it on him.

Whose was it?
She had a vision of the gulfs of bondage.
Could it be possible that human persons were subject to the spells of persons with tastes, aims, practices, pursuits alien to theirs?
It was a riddle taxing her to solve it for the resistance to a monstrous iniquity of injustice, degrading her conception of our humanity.

She attacked it in the abstract, as a volunteer champion of our offended race.

And Oh! it could not be.


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