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The Champdoce Mystery

CHAPTER XVII
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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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