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Rosy spoke with great confidence. Christian felt cheered by her words.
"It will be horribly difficult," said Christian; "and I hate deceiving. I never did deceive anyone yet in my life."
"It's a case of play-acting," said Rose stoutly; "and if you aint been play-acting all your born days, I don't know who has. Haven't you been Joan of Arc one day, and Charlotte Corday another and poor me Marat in his bath, waiting for you to stab me—and William Tell and the characters in the Bible? There aint no fear that you can't act. You've just got to act once more."
"But what?"
"Why, a girl who loves the slums, and dotes on her freedom, and is determined that nothing shall make her a slave. Now you know what to do. Oh, here comes Judith! I'd know Judith's step in a thousand."
As Rosy said the last words she began to hum in a high, excited, staccato voice:
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