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"Etwald! " repeated Lady Meg, thoughtfully. "Is he not the doctor of whom you have made so great a friend?"
"Yes. I took a viper to my bosom, and it stung me," replied Jen, who, in his excitement, was pacing backward and forward with hasty steps. "But I shall be even with him. In some way or another I believe it is possible to bring home to him this triple crime."