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The Covered Wagon

CHAPTER XIV
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You say it never can be--that means we've got to part.

Well, how can I forget ?" "I don't suppose you can.

I don't suppose that--that I can!" "What are you going to say?
Don't! Oh, please don't!" But she still went on, strangely, not in the least understanding her own swift change of mood, her own intent with him, _vis-a-vis_, here in the wilderness.
"While we were walking down here just now," said she, "somehow it all began to seem not so wrong.

It only seemed to stay wrong for you to have deceived me about yourself--what you really were--when you were in the Army.

I could maybe forgive you up to that far, for you did--for men are--well, men.


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