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Elizabeth's Pretenders

"How much better are the beasts of the field than men!" she murmured. "Treachery and falsehood are unknown to them."

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A few minutes later the dog-cart was flying through the lanes. It bore the embittered girl away from the house which had sheltered her since her father's death, nine months before. And she left it with loathing.