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The Poison Tree

CHAPTER XIX
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Debendra discovered from her half-spoken words that she had given her heart to him.

The words were hardly uttered when Hira recovered consciousness.

Then, with the wild look of a frantic creature, she exclaimed, "Go from my house!" Astonished, Debendra said, "What is the matter, Hira ?" "You must go at once, or I shall." "Why do you drive me away ?" said Debendra.
"Go, go, else I will call some one.

Why should you destroy me ?" "Is this woman's nature ?" asked Debendra.
Hira, enraged, answered: "The nature of woman is not evil.

The nature of such a man as you is very evil.


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