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Deadham Hard

CHAPTER IX
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She would not give way, she would not cry, but her soul was in travail.

These words, as coming from her father, were anguish to her.

She could look at him no longer, and lying outstretched thus, the lines of her gracious body, moulded by the embroidered linen quilt, quivered from head to heel.

Still that travail of soul should bring forth fruit.

She would not give in, cost what anguish it might, till all was said.
"I only want to do what is right," she cried, her voice half stifled by the pillows.


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