[In the Days of Poor Richard by Irving Bacheller]@TWC D-Link bookIn the Days of Poor Richard CHAPTER XII 4/8
They followed him out of the chamber.
In the great hallway, Margaret, her eyes wet with tears, embraced and kissed the philosopher. "I want you to know that I am your friend, and that I love America," she said. "My daughter, it has been a hard hour, but I am sixty-eight years old and have learned many things," he answered.
"Time is the only avenger I need.
It will lay the dust." The girl embraced and kissed him again and said in a voice shaking with emotion: "I wish my father and all Englishmen to know that I am your friend and that I have a love that can not be turned aside or destroyed and that I will have my right as a human being." "Come let us go and talk together--we three," he proposed. They took a cab and drove away. "You will think all this a singular proceeding," Lady Hare remarked. "I must tell you that rebellion has started in our home.
Its peace is quite destroyed.
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