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Elster’s Folly

CHAPTER XIII
19/30

Another lady was lying ill, and a third was recovering.

The landlady, by way of excuse, said the greatest wrong had been done to herself, for these ladies had brought the fever into her house, and brought it deliberately.

Fever had broken out in their own home, some long way off, and they ran away from it, and took her apartments, saying nothing; which was true, we found." "Two wrongs don't make a right," observed Lord Hartledon.

"Their bringing the fever into her house was no justification for receiving you into it when it was there.

It's the way of the world, Anne: one wrong leading to others.


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