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Conway shook his head a number of times.
"So you have always said, Edna; but saying a thing over and over again does not make it any truer. I did not give them to you----"
"You did," said Edna.
"Ah, Edna," he answered sadly, "how you can take the grace out of life! You can make even the present of a splendid string of pearls seem ungracious. I never gave them to you. I let you wear them while you were my wife--a mistake, for when you ceased to be my wife you would not give them back--natural, but hardly honest."
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