E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Charlie Kirschner,
and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
THE PENALTY
By
Gouverneur Morris
Illustrated by
Howard Chandler Christy
1913
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"Are you in love with me now?" he asked wistfully.
TO MARY BALDWIN
If I should lose from my life that part of it of which you are apart, there would be but a skeleton left. Yet if you had played alarger part in my life I should have been so spoiled that therewould be no living with me. And I'm spoiled enough, God knows!
In the Iliad you wrote for me, and I "drawed" for us both, 'twasHector fixed Achilles. When I sat at your right hand and yoursharp, swift knife went into the turkey, 'twas I that got thetit-bits and the oyster. And all was right with the worldthen, I can tell you!
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