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CHAPTER XVI
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Thee will live alone without a near and true friend, and thee will die alone, never having had a true friend.

Thee will never be a true friend, thee will never love truly man or woman, and thee will never find man or woman who will love thee truly, or will be with thee to aid thee in the dark and falling days." "Then," he broke in sharply, querulously, "then, I will stand alone.

I shall never come whining that I have been ill-used, to fate or fortune, to men or to the Almighty." "That I believe.

Pride will build up in thee a strength which will be like water in the end.

Oh, my lord," she added, with a sudden change in her voice and manner, "if thee could only be true--thee who never has been true to any one!" "Why does a woman always judge a man after her own personal experience with him, or what she thinks is her own personal experience ?" A robin hopped upon the path before her.


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