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Why was I always suffering, always browbeaten, always accused, for ever condemned? Thereupon, finding Tess unfairly browbeaten, the husbands and lovers tried to make peace by defending her; but the result of that attempt was directly to increase the war. Once more quarrelling, each of them staked money on his own side of the Grandmother's chair(for instance, the one Pole staked upon the red, and the other one upon the black), until they had so confused and browbeaten the old lady that, nearly weeping, she was forced to appeal to the head croupier for protection, and to have the two Poles expelled. |
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