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CHAPTER XX
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She gropes for the edge of the road with a stick, for she has become quite blind.

They never looked after her.

They were going to do it, unendingly, but they never did it.

They always said, "Poor little angel," and that was all.
She is so miserably clad that you lower your eyes before her, although she cannot see.

She wanders and seeks, incapable of understanding the wrong they have done, they have allowed to be done, the wrong which no one remembers.


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