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he doesn’t belong every chance she gets! She
doesn’t invite him to her husband’s very obvious
birthday party. She tries to hide her family’s vacation
plans from him. She is so clearly biased against this
man - so who’s to say she’s not lying about her entire
case? What would cause a woman to give the rights
to her husband’s final work to a man she hated?
Gratitude, ladies and gentlemen. See for yourselves.
Page 298: "... Shade’s widow found herself so deeply affected by the idea
of my having "thrown myself" between the gunman
and his target that ... she cried out, stroking my
hands: "There are things for which no recompense in
this world or another is great enough.""
Sybil Shade was grateful that Kinbote tried to save her husband. In that
moment, her petty hate briefly disappeared, and she
immediately gave Kinbote her permission - legally
binding, mind you - to, and I
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ZEMBLAN LAWYER (cont’d)
quote, "edit and publish John’s last poem." Now, after having the book
published, seeing her ugly side revealed for all the
public to see, she goes back on her promise, saying
she was manipulated!
AMERICAN LAWYER
She was, you psychotic -
JUDGE
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