The book Beyond the Breakers a Story of the Present Day was written by author Robert Dale Owen Here you can read free online of Beyond the Breakers a Story of the Present Day book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Beyond the Breakers a Story of the Present Day a good or bad book?
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I m glad we came here this evening, Celia. " " Have you some prejudice of mine to combat ?" " Perhaps. " The color rose in her cheeks. "You have guessed aright, " Syden ham continued. "It is of your mother and your own birth and position that I wish to speak to you. " Celia struggled for composure. " Speak to me freely, " she said at last. " I know it is right that it should be talked over. " "Tell me how you feel about thi? matter. It grieves you more than your loss of property ?" " Much more.... I confess I have felt dreadfully about it. I can scarcely tell you how : as if I had been debased, de graded as if every one had obtained the right to look down upon me, to de spise me. The Pariahs of India came into my mind. " " Now I can answer your question. I have a prejudice of } ours to combat. " " Is it a prejudice ? Yet we must often suffer for the evil-doing of a parent. Are we not told that God visits the sins of the fathers on the children ?" " The sentiment is Jewish, not Chris tian : you would look for such an one in vain among Christ s teachings.
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