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The Poison Tree

CHAPTER XIX
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You have no religion, you care nothing for the fate of others; you go about seeking only your own delight, thinking only what woman you can destroy.

Otherwise, why are you sitting in my house?
Was it not your design to compass my destruction?
You thought me to be a courtezan, else you would not have had the boldness to sit down here.

But I am not a courtezan; I am a poor woman, and live by my labour.

I have no leisure for such evil doings.

If I had been a rich man's wife, I can't say how it would have been." Debendra frowned.
Then Hira softened; she looked full at Debendra and said: "The sight of your beauty and your gifts has made me foolish, but you are not to think of me as a courtezan.


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