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The Measure of a Man

CHAPTER X
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I will never live with you again.

I am going away forever, and I'll take little Willy with me.

If you aren't fit to be a mother, you aren't fit to be a wife!" She cried out pitifully, but he lifted the child in his arms and went out with him.' "At these words, John, I rang the bell and ordered my horse.

Mother paid no attention to that, but continued, 'The woman raved all night, and died early the next morning.' I said with a good deal of anger, that her husband's brutality had killed her and that the grave was the only place for a poor woman who was married to such a monster.

And then I heard the trampling of horses' feet and I came away without another word.


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