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A Pleasing Irony: It Is The City Woman Who Saves The Wife's Life


.... The very bullrushes that the Woman From The City impatiently snaps off at their roots, and thrusts upon The Man, and which she believes will ensure The Wife's murder, become the means to The Wife's salvation.

As You-Know-Who puts it, "There's a divinity which shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will."




"Gratitude is not only the greatest of all virtues; it is the mother of all virtues."

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Yeah, that was a pleasing irony, if I must say so myself, againf.










"This bar of likker is now a bar of justice!"

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The for me even more remarkable irony: it's the Wife's life that saves the City Woman.

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Quite right, mon ami.

"This bar of likker is now a bar of justice!"

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ton amie :)

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