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The Purchase Price

CHAPTER VI
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Don't tempt me, don't try to drive me--it will never do.

I'll be harder to handle than the man who lost you to me last evening in a game of cards,--and who went away last night and left you--to me." As she gazed at him she saw his hands clenched, his mouth twitching.

"You would do that, even--" she began.

"I have never known men grew thus unscrupulous.

A game--a game at cards! And I--was lost--I!--I! And also won?
What can you mean?
Am I then indeed a slave, a chattel?
Ah, indeed, now am I lost! My God, and I have no country, no kin, no God, to avenge me!" A sort of sob caught in his throat.


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