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The Trials of the Soldier’s Wife

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVENTH
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To a man of this city, who, before the world's eye, appeared the Christian and the man of benevolence, but who in his dealings with his fellow-men, was as vile an extortioner as the most heartless; to this man she went and hired a room in which to find a shelter.

Finding she was a refugee and fearing an evil day, he bound her down by law to suffer ejectment the moment she could no longer pay the rent.

Ignorant of the weapon she placed in his hands, she signed the deed, and after paying a portion of the rent in advance, left him and assumed possession.

Mark well, gentlemen, what I have said.

In his action we find no Christianity--no benevolence; nothing but the spirit of the extortioner is here manifested.


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