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The Shadow of the Rope

CHAPTER XIX
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It would happen in London, and everywhere else as soon as I became known.

And henceforth I mean to be known!" cried Rachel, wilfully; "there shall be no more hiding who I was, or am; that is the way to make them think the worst when they find out.

But is it not disgraceful?
I was acquitted, and yet I am to be treated as though I had been merely pardoned.

Is that not a disgrace to common humanity ?" "Humanity is not so common as you imagine," remarked Steel.
"It is un-Christian!" cried Hugh Woodgate, with many repetitions of the epithet.
Langholm said nothing.

His eyes never left Rachel's face.


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