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A Dozen Ways Of Love

CHAPTER IV
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She feasted her eyes upon him.
He looked round upon the cellar.

'You must not live here any longer,' said he.
For the first time in her life humility reigned in her heart and she resigned her gypsy freedom.

'I'm thinking,' she replied modestly, 'that it's nae fit for the mither of sich as ye are noo.' With the minister Lambetti left money that would defray the expenses of a decent habitation for his mother, and, to the wonder of all, from that day forth the mother lived in it decently.

She was even charitable with her little store; she was even known to raise the fallen.
When she was dead Lambetti was dead too.

He had lived his life fast, and, if gold be of worth, it seemed as if he had lived it to some purpose.


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