Capitolo 23
courage that would have embellished and you/he/she would have strengthened my character; crushes out it, and a cowardly girl left me, miserable, defenseless! But to return. "Unintentionally I stooped down me, and it started to choose on the pieces of the fragile horns and the eyes of the head of the elk, that disposition sprinkled around on the soft carpet, while really asking himself/herself/itself if, indeed, I broke him/it. "'You have now gathered on the pieces, immediately goes to Your father; and you mind it tells him you broke him/it. Does it feel me?' "I slipped out of the room, street from the presence of the woman that it had so it cruelly imposed on my helplessness. Trembling with fear, and a sense of my supposed guilt, I drew near me to my father from what it was this done duration to comfortably sit in the session-room of family, while reading the paper in the morning. "I walked to on all four to him and I held out the fragments. "'The d--l to pay! Who broke this?' he almost shouted in anger. "'I did', I murmured; and the rest of my history not said, my father me stricken a hit for the first and last time in his/her life. It sent me reeling against a table; the acute angle struck my forehead and my cut a terrible wound. Here, I will show him/it to you. It is clearly visible, and it will be always." Leah lifted the dark and shining hair from her smooth pale forehead, and visualized the long one, firm slashes from what hidden was so attentively the ebon folds up. "I always bring my hair they combed to hide him/it." "Oh! Leah, Leah" the sighed Lizzie, "as terrible!" "At sight of the blood that has freely flowed from the wound my father, takes me in his/her arm, and kissing my blood-stained face, it exclaimed again and again: "'Foolish, unfortunate, devil that I am! Not for the whole world I have you pour a drop of this precious blood. I implore Your pardon my, dear--thousand times, my child!' Mine to whine, although suppressed, brought my mother to the room. With an air well-pretense of the innocence and tenderness, she tried to dry away the blood from my face, and
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