[The Champdoce Mystery by Emile Gaboriau]@TWC D-Link bookThe Champdoce Mystery CHAPTER XVII 12/16
As you entered, he was entreating me to fly with him; both his life and his honor were in my hands.
Ah, why did I pause for an instant? Had I consented, he would still have been alive, and in some far distant country he and I might have learned that this world has something more to offer than unhappiness and misery.
Yes, as you will have it, you shall have all.
I loved him ere I knew that you even existed.
I have only my own folly to blame, only my own unhappy weakness to deplore.
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