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Iola Leroy

CHAPTER XII
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A girl with her apparent refinement and magnificent beauty, were it not for the cross in her blood, I would be proud to introduce to our set.

She would be the sensation of the season.

I believe to-day it would be easier for me to go to the slums and take a young girl from there, and have her introduced as my wife, than to have society condone the offense if I married that lovely girl.

There is not a social circle in the South that would not take it as a gross insult to have her introduced into it." "Well," said Bastine, "my plan is settled.

Leroy has never allowed her to spend her vacations at home.


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