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In the Days of Poor Richard

CHAPTER XII
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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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