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Excerpt from Because of Conscience: Being a Novel Relating to the Adventures of Certain Huguenots in Old New York
Alaine looked up at him gravely from under her long lashes. She wondered how much she dared tell to this cousin to whose opinions she had deferred ever since she could remember.
Would she not he repeated, smiling as he took the ?ower, with rather too rough a hand, Alaine thought. Can you say with true spirit, 'a bas les He spoke the words so fiercely that Alaine looked half alarmed, at which he laughed. There, my cousin, he continued, you are too young to be troubled by these questions, and your father is too good a Catholic to let you stray from the fold.
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