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My Lady of Doubt

CHAPTER XXII
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Did you think such swash-buckling was going to win my heart?
Any girl possessing self-respect would revolt at such methods.
Whatever affection I may have felt for you as a boy has been driven from me by these actions.

You wanted a slave, a servant, not a companion, and it is not in Mortimer blood to yield to every whim, to every crack of the whip.

I never loved you, never confessed I did.

I tried to be obedient, endeavored to like you to please my father, but this past winter has so thoroughly revealed your real character that I will pretend no longer." "My character! We have known each other from childhood.

I know well enough what has made the difference in you." "Indeed!" "Yes, indeed; it's that damned Continental spy." "It has been some one all along according to your theory--any gentleman who has shown me ordinary kindness.


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