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Inez

CHAPTER XV
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My countrymen are many here, and he is stronger than all.

You and I have thwarted him, and the walls of a far off convent are our destination--you, and your cousin, and myself.

I am at heart no Catholic; I have seen the devil, if there be one, in my confessor.

I have heard him lie, and seen him take the widow's and the orphan's portion.

Mary, if there was a God, would he suffer such as my Padre to minister in his holy place, and touch the consecrated vessels?
No, no; there is none, or he would be cut off from the face of the earth." "Inez! Inez! stop and hear me." "No, no! time waits for none, and I have little more to say, Mary, you are deceived; your cousin is not what you think.


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