preferred
not to be
touched,but
there it
was,she
could not
help
herself.She
did not
know
that,in
all her
life
before,anyone
had ever
fought for
her,and
that now
of all
champions
in the
world fate
should
have
chosen
Jeremy,who
was,she
had
supposed,her
enemy--never
her
defender!
And that
horrid
child of
the
Dean--she
had always
disliked
him,with
his long
yellow
neck and
watery
eyes!How
dared he
say such
things
about
her!He had
