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A Terrible Temptation - A Story of To-Day by Charles Reade
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"I carry everything. What's the use doing things by halves, good or
bad?"

"Well, but that Polly! She is young enough to get her living elsewhere;
and she is extremely disrespectful to you."

"That she is. If I wasn't a lady, I'd have given her a good hiding this
very day for her cheek!"

"Then why not turn her off this very day for her cheek?"

"Well, I'll tell you, since you and I are parted forever. No, I don't
like."

"Oh, come! No secrets between friends."

"Well, then, the old hag is--my mother."

"What?"

"And the young jade--is my sister."

"Good Heavens!"

"And the page--is my little brother."

"Ha, ha, ha!"

"What, you are not angry?"
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