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Ailsa Paige

CHAPTER IX
10/31

I wanted to kiss them, but I was ashamed.
"Some day do you think I might see you again?
I am what you have asked me to be.

I never wanted to be anything else.

They will not believe that at home because they had warned me, and I was such a fool--and perhaps you won't believe me--but I _didn't_ know what I was doing; I didn't want to be what I became--This is really true, Mr.Berkley.

Sometime may I see you again?
Yours sincerely, "LETITIA A.LYNDEN." He had replied that he would see her some day, meaning not to do so.

And there it had rested; and there, stretched on his sofa, he rested, the sneer still edging his lips, not for her but for himself.
"She'd have made some respectable man a good--mistress," he said.
"Here is a most excellent mistress, spoiled, to make a common-place nurse!.


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