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don't you dispute the right with him? Turn _him_ out, and defy him!"
He did not tell Sibylla that she was talking like a child. He only said
that John Massingbird's claim to Verner's Pride was indisputable--that
it had been his all along; that, in point of fact, he himself had been
the usurper.
"Then you mean," she said, "to give him up quiet possession?"
"I have no other resource, Sibylla. To attempt any sort of resistance
would be foolish as well as wrong."
"_I_ shan't give it up. I shall stay here in spite of him. You may do as
you like, but he is not going to get me out of my own home."
"Sibylla, will you try and be rational for once? If ever a time called
for it, it is the present. I ask you whether I shall seek after
lodgings."
"And I wonder that you are not ashamed to ask me," retorted Sibylla,
bursting into tears. "Lodgings, after Verner's Pride! No. I'd rather die
than go into lodgings. I dare say I shall die soon, with all this
affliction."
"I do not see what else there is for us but lodgings," resumed Lionel,
after a pause.


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