[Blind Love by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link bookBlind Love CHAPTER XII 4/32
Reverend gentlemen talk about the fall of Adam.
What was that to the fall of Harry, when he was back in his own little cottage, without the hope of ever seeing you again? To the best of my recollection, the serpent that tempted Eve was up a tree.
I found the serpent that tempted Me, sitting waiting in my own armchair, and bent on nothing worse than borrowing a trifle of money.
Need I say who she was? I don't doubt that you think her a wicked woman." Never ready in speaking of acts of kindness, on her own part, Iris answered with some little reserve: "I have learnt to think better of Mrs.Vimpany than you suppose." Lord Harry began to look like a happy man, for the first time since he had entered the room. "I ought to have known it!" he burst out.
"Yours is the well-balanced mind, dear, that tempers justice with mercy.
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