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\"Be silent, my child,\" said her father anxiously. \"If you are overheard I am lost. Both your mother and I may be made to suffer for any imprudent remark which you may make.\"

\"But, papa, have you not often told us,\" said Eugene, \"that it was proper to resist an act of oppression?\"

\"Yes,\" said the father proudly, though conscious that his words might be reported and misrepresented to his merciless judges. \"And I repeat it. Our conduct,


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\"Be silent, my child,\" said her father anxiously. \"If you are overheard I am lost. Both your mother and I may be made to suffer for any imprudent remark which you may make.\"

\"But, papa, have you not often told us,\" said Eugene, \"that it was proper to resist an act of oppression?\"

\"Yes,\" said the father proudly, though conscious that his words might be reported and misrepresented to his merciless judges. \"And I repeat it. Our conduct,


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