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  1. r—- stubborn. He had character, she would de-

|. =o it. And she would bind him. There would E = —: second wife in her hogahn. i Tzdence,’ she told herself; ‘you are not in the © Soren desert yet. You have a long road to } ===! vet, full of ambushes.’ Se= had no intention of herding sheep and slav-

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