Ambitious Woman

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[...]both her own and drawing his arm about her neck. She was trembling with what seemed sudden fear as she looked up into his face. "Father," she cried, "I'll go with you! I couldn't live alone with Mother. If you go, take me with you! Promise-please promise! Mother isn't good to me a bit. I couldn't live alone with her! She is cross nearly all the time, when you're not here, and she struck me yesterday, and she often does it, and I didn't ever tell you before, because I knew it would trouble you so to know!"[...].