CHAPTER 16

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XCI

Emma slowly

sat down the chair,

Recalling

dear old Mary's dead.

She thought

it was only a scare.

But the news and truth

quickly spread.

XCII

The Paragon saw

her mood changed.

She bowed her head

and bit her lip.

Her emotion

suddenly waned.

Is that guilt,

even just a whit?

XCIII

EMMA:

"I hated her,

that is a yes.

And I wanted

John James all mine.

But I have nothing

to confess,

With that tragedy

way past nine."

XCIV

PARAGON:

"I knew

you spoke to her that day,

Just so you know

you have been seen.

You calmly met

at a cafe,

With a little

crying cuisine."

XCV

EMMA:

For some thing's

a mess and strewn,

She doesn't think

she could escape.

The truth will come crawling

quite soon.

Moving through

the vines of the grape.

XCVI

EMMA:

"I begged

for John James back to me,

By then

that's the time that she cried.

Because

I told dear old Mary,

I told her

that I am with child."

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