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see the oval face of a handsome young deep dark and long y clinging w e m to clasp in a anything they against tlie cheeks are paler the more regular d red lips thinner than is usual in a bred girl it is otherwise d changed tho same bnt not the same at the present s of her living as a stranger and an i though ib was no...
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them ah she bears it very well alone in a desert island would she have been wretched at what had happened to not if she could have been but just created to discover herself as a mother with no experience of life except as the parent of a nameless child would the position have caused her to despair t no she would have ...
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so as scarce to seem a personality to its with the t then stood erect with the infant on beside t basin the next sister held the prayer book open before h as tlie clerk at church held it before the parson and th the girl set about her her figure looked tall and imposing as i stood in her long white cable of t dark hair...
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it will be just the same to bim if you don tt will it be just s sake e of the d as saint to sinner but as you yourself to me me how the reconciled his answer with the e tions he supposed himself to hold on these beyond a s power to tell though not to somewhat moved he said in this case also it will be just the same so ...
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had passed between them on the subject that she never alluded to the now yet such is human that one of the interests of to her was the accidental its ing near her forefathers for they were not men though her mother was to the bone the called for she was hound stood not from some of the former estates of the d near the ...
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or gi ave one day was pink and another she was pale and when she i pink was feeling less than when she was pale more beauty accorded with her less elevated mood her more intense mood with her less perfect beauty it was her best face physically that was now set against the south wind the irresistible universal tendency ...
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their shoes a the of the girl sat down on lier t legged stool her fa ie her right cheek the cow and looked along th a flank at as she the male will i hat turned down on their and q l did not t the e ij y one of these was a middle aged man whose long while was somewhat finer and than the of the s and underneath had pi...
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do thi because there t so many of em said the man these rs do certainly back their milk to day folks we must lift up a s two that s the cure for t songs were resorted to in as i to the when they showed signs i t m holding their usual and the band of at i request burst melody iu purely bu i tones is true and with no g...
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had left her and gone on his way with hia the flood of memories ht by this of in incident from a time ant h r troubles j a y dismay lest her also ti should by some means ry but it iy found no sign of remembrance in him she by degrees that since their first and only encounter liis face had grown more thoughtful and had ...
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but with living on re day after day the acute became conscious p of the d of a new aspect iu the spectacle without any whatever variety had taken the place of his host and his host s ills men a his maids as they became known t t to themselves as in a the of s was brought home to him on a d ou il y les du lie pas de les...
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they presented without fancy or choice but certain cows will how a for a particular of bands sometimes this so far a to refuse to stand at all to their favorite the of a stranger being un kicked over was s rule to insist on breaking down and by constant in the event of a or maid going away from p he was otherwise plac...
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want should look upon it as a to be alive for the unhappy pilgrim herself there was very good reason but how could this admirable and poetic man ever have f lu op the d into the valley of felt i man of as she had foil two or three ago my and death rather my life i it i would not live it was true that he was at presen...
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the of his eyes rising above the seemed to have a sort of upon il looked ghostly as if she were merely a soul at reality her without appearing to do so had cold gleam of day from the his own tho he did not think of it wore the same aspect her it was then as has l een that she i moat she was no longer the but k essence ...
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i t toll her e i be aiid witli that he j through the trap door and shut himself t as tlie s mother bu ted into the the villain where is he i says she i ll ills e for ii let me only catch him well she hunted about everywhere jack by side and by jack lying a most b inside the and the poor maid standing at the door cryi...
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again they all three blew him a kiss why asked because he likes best said lowering her voice i have watched him every day and have found it out there was a silence i but she care for him i at length breathed well i think that too but how all this is said impatiently of course he wouldn t any one of us or either ii t...
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up bo ihe ril carry you b tiie every of yon the four as if one heart beat i you can t sir it is for you to get past stand still nonsense you are not too heavy i d carry you all four together now attend he continued and put your arms my shoulders so now hold on that s well done had lowered herself upon his arm and shoul...
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have never expected it thought of it but i wish i was dead poor child torn bj a feeling which slip hardly turned to the two other girls who came we be friends with her again she said to them she thinks no more of his choosing her than we do so reserve went off and they were confiding and n i don t seem to care what i ...
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i knee she went round to where they stood soon the of old s into the came through r hedge and then felt to go round the also to finish off a hard yielding who had i there lie now as capable of this a the ii himself all the men and some of the women when di i their into the cows and gazed into the a few mainly the youn...
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no after dark unless on the gross roads garden the house fronts the walls were warm as and reflected the temperature into tiie the he calmly view the absorbing id without and it with of men women in the usual how you are to me resolve upon a plan for into that world anew but behold the absorbing scene en and what had...
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little town tlie tower of red stone the of trees near the i a k came at last into view beneath him aud lie rode i wards the well known gate casting a glance in the of the church before entering hie ho standing by tlie door a gi of f twelve and sixteen awaiting tjie arrival of some other one who in a moment in th of a ...
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as he had not been put to the expense of sending angel np to cambridge he had felt it his to set by a sum of money every year towards the purchase or lease of land for him some day that he might not feel himself as far as worldly wealth goes continued his father you will no doubt stand far to your brothers in a few yea...
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answer as an honorable woman o mr i cannot be your wife i cannot be the sound of her own decision seemed to break a very and she bowed her face in her grief but ho said amazed at her reply and holding her still more do you say no sorely you love me oh yes yea and i would rather be yours than any in the world returned...
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to the wave it seemed to him now that was again in sight to chin from nature and not from the h art the did not permanently o his experience of women was great enough for l im to bo aware that the negative often meant nothing the jn to the affirmative and it was uttle t for him not to know that in the manner of the pre...
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and as a preliminary to a new entreaty not again she looked a sudden fear that her r ance might break down under her own desire he went on i cannot think why you are why do you me so t you almost like a upon my lift yon do a the first water they blow hot and blow as you do and it is the very last sort of to to find i...
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she wanted a home and didn t like to run the risk of losing him don t ye think that was like it maidens t he glanced towards the row of girls she to ha told liim just they went to i when he could hardly have backed out exclaimed an yes she agreed she must have seen what he was after and should ha refused him cried and...
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it is too early t take mo to task she you need not call me tis cruel aud wait till by and by please till by and by i will really think seriously about it now and then let me go the j a little like what he said she was ns holding the candle sideways she tried to smile away the i if her words call me angel then and not ...
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closer and he i them both a large piece sail which was used i keep the sun off the milk s hold it m off him as well as herself s hands being now we are all right again ah no we an t runs down into ray neck a little and it must still i that s better tour arms are like wet nm i wipe them in the cloth now if yon stay t ...
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respect as reason those spiritual ones of the e and virtuous with i of the d out regard to but i am x d in this news you can have no idea how interested i am not you interested yourself in being one ut that well known line i have thought it once or twice since coming here and knowing tliat many of the mild fields i ...
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a word of your trouble to him j did not tell everything to your father he being so proud on account of his respectability which perhaps your is the same many a woman some of the highest in the land have had a trouble in their time and why should you trumpet yours when others don t trumpet theirs no girl would be such...
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fee it n hurt to their dignity my dear girl a d hurt the it is a grand card to play that of your to such a family and i am it for a grand when we arc married and have the proofs of your from parson i ml from that my totally foreign to my family s it wiu not surface of their lives we shall leave this port of the cons...
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ask me am sure i will answer l s he continued humbly i op tub d well you love me and have agreed to me there follows a when the lay i like living like this but i must think of in on my own hook with the new year or a little later and before i gi t involved in the details of my new i should like to have secured my par...
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heart to tell all her to despite her mother s command to let him for whom she lived and breathed despise her if he would and li t mother regard her as a fool rather than preserve a which might be deemed a treachery to liim and somehow a wrong to these this mood kept her from the the beginning of november found its da...
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approached as for the and ihey mi ht have been a growth of the imagination aided by knowledge was now carried along upon the of the b the consequence without tlie sense of a wiu the bad bet n given of the day written down her bright intelligence bad begun to admit the convictions to field folk and those who associate m...
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i pulled out to day for packing i am occasionally to these in my sleep go to bed and think it no more this was the last required to turn the scale of r declare the past to him by of mouth f not but there was another way she sat down wrote on the four pages of a note sheet a j of toe d of of or four years ago put a...
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t sweet shall have plenty of time i hope ti i will confess mine at same but it would be r or me to do it i that you could not say well you shall tell me say as soon as we st in our lodging not now i too will tell you my faults then but do not let us spoil the day with them they will be excellent matter for a dull t...
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of the been told by the old folk that they were ladies of the family the ancient lords of this she said owing to their being into the wall they can t be removed the of the matter was that in addition to their effect upon her fine features were in their exaggerated forms he said nothing of this however and that his roma...
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he he turned to the arc he how was a lad of fifteen his tie squire s only rich son witli ri the consequence s i had her faith to his had a career him there had seemed nothing at all out of keeping with a career in the up of these for his wife aad the wives of lier they gleamed somewhat ii he asked himself it was but...
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trunks and drink a cup of ale and hasten hack as soon ni can in case you should he wanted had gone hack to the inner and down by the fire looking wistfully into it she heard s heavy footsteps up and down the stairs till he done placing the luggage aud heard him s the ale her husband took out to him and for ity he recei...
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in the same held just as slowly and as regardless of the hour and of the cheerless night as before it was only on account of his with his own affairs and the illness in his house that he did not bear in mind the curious incident however he recalled a long while after the interval of the s going and coming she had said ...
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could age to shift for themselves that morning she had a in her hand which he told her tu leave at il when tlie dame gone away he searched in tht r of tiie for fuel and lit n there was plenty of t bread and so on in the pays m t and had breakfast laid his at ie having i ed liim in domestic pi the smoke of the kindled w...
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how wicked it was wicked the idea was of yon but angel she pleaded her eyes in c j upon him it was thought of entirely on y ii account to set you free without the scandal of the that i ht you would have to got i dreamed of doing it on mine however to my own hand is too good for me after all it is yon my husband who o...
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her consent often had he said gaily that her mouth and breath tasted of butter and eggs and milk and honey on which she mainly lived that he drew from them and other follies of that sort but he did not care for them now he ol served her sudden shrinking and said gently you know i have to think of a course it was imper...
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table cloth hand which bore the ring that them both ing her forehead it is quite true all of it you must go away me but what can yoa do t i can go home i the had not thought of that are you sure he said sure we ought to t and wo may as well get it past aud done you once said that i was apt to wiu men against their be...
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kiss upon her lips in the scorned then he her with a renewed of hold and descended the the of the comer stair did not awaken him and they reached the floor safely one of his from its grasp of her for a moment he slid ba dow bar and pa out slightly striking his l toe against the edge of the door but this he seemed to a...
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and body was such that he undisturbed as as they met the next morning divined that knew little or of bow far she had been in the night s excursion though as regarded himself s may an ng tliat lie had not lain still in be liad awakened that morning fi om a sleep deep aa and ing those st few moments in which the like a...
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anger between as though there ia ij i i cannot at present i will try l i bring myself endure it i will let you know i tn as u know myself and if i can bring mj self to bear h if ij is desirable possible i kill come to yon but i com to on it will be better that you should not try to tlie severity of the decree seemed ...
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ing she went indoors and her daughter followed her the washing tub stood in the same old place on the same old quarter and her mother having thrown the sheet aside was about to plunge her arms in anew of the why my i thought yon was to be some days ago really and truly this time we the yes mother ao i am going to...
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perception that her word even here in her own parental house set her mind the spot as nothing else could have done how ted were the attacks of destiny and if lier father a little would not and acquaintance i much she could not live long at i days accordingly were all that she allowed her j i at the end of which she rec...
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do not plain iy if she suits for ihe chosen to follow instead of the of i yet i wish i have seen her first a known a httle more about her we sent hi r ent of own not knowing what li t pleasure but you must suppose it only a there is no irritation in my mind or your s you for this but we have thought it much to reserve...
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he would have told that i te s of tub d then never the rest after all are few r things m nature than im il maid any of manner wliich may offend your i educated sense at first will i am disappear the i influence of your and such sarcasm of blind mo home to the gloomy perception that ht had h wrecked his career by this m...
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the morning of leaving the hung under the as he had placed it been there three or four weeks it was turning color and the leaves and were wrinkled angel took it down and crushed it into the grate standing he for the first time doubted whether bis course in this had been a wise much less a generous one but had he not be...
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burst into tears and beat her forehead as she saw what the had d do you regret that poor little act of justice to la sent one o t spoil it by regret she hei self by the pays very well sir perhaps i didn t wliat i was sa i either when i agreed to go i wish what be because i have a loving wife already yes yes you have...
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preferred the fertile of the to the farm for which she was now bound because for it was nearer to the home of her husband s father and to about that region with the notion that might decide to call at tie some day gave her but having once decided to try the higher and er she pressed on marching towards the of chalk whe...
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i be not bleeding and i ll two hands to feed and clothe me she l hi l t the pays herself for her gloom of the night based on more than a sense of condemnation under an law of society which had no in e it was now broad day and she started again ag cautiously upon the highway but there was no need for caution a soul was ...
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if they did not work they not be j aid so they worked on it wo w a situation this field that the rain had no to fall but ed along upon the yelling into them like glass till by degrees they j wore wet through had not known till now j few le of either sex know what is really nt by that there are degrees of and a very l...
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knew that it meant snow in the night the came who continued to v at the cottage with the wai m that cheered the i who paused it awoke in the night and heard above the noises which to signify that the roof had turned itself into a of all the winds when lit her lamp to get up in the morning found that the snow had blown...
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of me i first time at the inn with your man and the time on the road when you bolted but now think v got the better of you he concluded with a hard a between the and tlie like a caught in a clap net n no answer ing to pull ihe straw she l read r well to know by this time that she had nothing to her employer s it was r...
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t she c te s op the d l i t know anyhow he his mind then he didn t mean it twas a jest yes he did for he drove her a good way towards station anyhow he didn t take her pulled on in silence till without any tory symptoms burst ont crying there said now i wish i hadn t t no it is a very good that you have done have bee...
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her side and so gain the she soon reached the edge of the vast below stretched the wide and of lying now misty and still in the dawn instead of the air of the the atmosphere down there was a deep blue lust ad of the great of fifty to a acres in which she was now accustomed to toil there were little fields below her of...
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her condition before she was prepared to for though she knew that they could identify her she instinctively dreaded their scrutiny more they walked the more briskly tliey were plainly bent upon taking a short before going s to lunch or dinner to to limbs chilled with sitting through a long only one person had preceded ...
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leaned upon s and paused by she did not enter any house till at the or eighth mile she descended the steep long hill below which lay the or of where in the morning she with such expectations the by the church in which she again sat down the first at that end of the village and while tho woman fetched her some milk from...
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he was not man to insist its importance every must work as ho could l est work and in the method towards which he felt impelled by the spirit d read and re read this letter and seemed to himself thereby he also read some passages from his bible as he walked till his face assumed a calm and the image of no longer troubl...
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the question a strange wretchedness which was not entirely e of duty crossed d s face it was a that something of hie old for her ha i n and desire ran hand in hand surely ho began iu more impetuous tones and then looked round at the who turned the too felt that the argument could not be ended there informing the man t...
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sex to i as a master this man of stone who would have u if he had dared was almost a relief after her l i she silently walked back towards the j of the field that was the scene of her labor bo m the interview which had taken place that she was hard aware that nose of horse almost tou l shoulders if so be you make an me...
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merciless that she had heard use when as it he indulged in a species of thinking aloud with her at his side in delivering it she gave also s accent and manner with fidelity say that again asked who had listened the attention repeated the argument and d murmured the words after her thing else i he presently asked i ho ...
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to her i the it is tlie of the la t wheat at farm the dawn of the march is and there ie to show when the horizon lies against the twilight rises the summit of the which has stood here through the washing and of the winter weather when and arrived at the scene of operations only a that others had preceded them to which ...
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and in the primitive days of mankind had been i and had nothing in common bat long association owing to angel s to her training in and to he r being a vessel of rather than reasons she could not t on well never mind he resumed here i am my love as in the old times not as then never as then it is different site and th...
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in the there had been nothing appeared as the ace of the same i ed the west sky a shine all that wild march could afford in the way of sunset had burst forth after the cloudy day the and faces of the and them a light as also the flapping garments of the which clung to them like dull i a panting ache ran through the m...
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heart now said old mr to his wife when he had read the envelope if angel ing for n visit home at the end of month as he told us that he hoped to do i tliis may hasten his plans for believe it to be from wife he deeply at the thought of her and the letter was to he promptly sent on to angel dear fellow i he i get home ...
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an admitted to this man as they rode along the sorrowful tm of his marriage the stranger had in many more lands b among many more than angel to his mind such de nations from the social so immense were no more than are the and mountain chain to the whole cur he viewed the matter in quite a different light from thought t...
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hear her and the simple silly words of thi songs in painful mockery of the heart of the singer was so wi apt up in this fanciful dream that she ted not to know how the season was advancing that downstairs room body knocked at the the doorway she saw with the height of a tall thin girlish the twilight till the t is it h...
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and there s a lot is a good deal better but i the child i the yet its sadness and stood importance till beholding she said what more but father was only a lu up i the doctor who was there chance for him because hi yes the c dying one was out of dan dead the news meant e father s life had a value c ments or it would the...
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going away aren t you yes to morrow old lady day i heard you were but could hardly e it j it s so sudden why is it t father s was the last hfe on the property and that dropped we had no further right to hide might perhaps have stayed as weekly tenants if it l been for about the convert i am not a bright example d s...
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been fruitless the driver of the wagon said the goods must be lis he was bound to return part of the way that night very well it here said shelter somewhere the wagon bad drawn up under the wall in n spot from view and the driver nothing loth noon hauled down the poor battered heap of household she paid him witli al...
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passed by in the street without had he not got out of their carriage at the particular moment when a particular person was due mrs rushed through the dark passage to the door and her husband came more slowly r the new arrival who was just about to r saw their anxious faces in the doorway and the gleam of the west in th...
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your wife if you do love her as much as she do love you and signed two well in a of an hour was leaving the house his watched his thin figure as it disappeared into the street he had declined to borrow his father s old mare well of its necessity to the household he ut to the inn where he hired a trap and could hardly d...
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the evening having a distance of over miles since leaving mai the village being small he had difficulty in mrs s which was a house in a garden remote from the main street where she had away her awkward old furniture as best she could it wi plain that for some reason or other she had not wished hi to visit her and he fe...
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tjie evident result of haste he held out his arms but they had fallen again to his for she had not come d remaining still in tht opening of the doorway mere yellow skeleton tliat he was now ho felt the contrast between them and thought his appearance distasteful to her he said can you forgive mo for can t you com...
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ii ver and you me and said what a i is to expect him at last i you and and he a second time and i have lost him now forever and he will not love me the bit ever any more only hate me oh yes i have lost him now again because n you i in with her head on tho chair she turned her li e towards the door and mrs see the p...
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food bottles of should any emergency they sat down meal between one ai and went on i i feel strong i think we may as the interior of the con and are less likely to b coast gotten us we can she i d an ornamental te a large board which was letters desirable mansion to be let witb directions to apply to london agents p...
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happy good by she said my life can only l e a question i f a few weeks why should we not have stayed don t say it we shall soon get out of this district altogether we ll continue our course as we have begun it and keep straight north nobody will think of looking for us that way we shall e looked for at the ports if we...
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the bad of me and if she were to l yours it almost seem as if death had not divided ns s have said it i won t mention it again how could i it she ceased and he fell into thought id fl s he could see between the pillars r level of light tlie uniform ity of black l bodily like the lid of a pot letting in at the s edge th...
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a with a record and that being so i naturally paid little heed to the with which the boy proceeded to favour me i had heard that kind of thing so many many times before what was really interesting and inexplicable was madame de s conduct in the matter and i will not deny that i went that evening to a party at which i t...
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friend of hers as well as of mine and i m sure you ll be glad to hear that it s all right do you mean i inquired that you have obtained j our father s consent to your marriage my father s consent good gracious me no as if i had had any excuse to ask him for it but i have obtained hers which is a good deal more to the ...
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with some of his relations and i had written a polite reply to the letter of introduction which had been delivered to me by his son it seemed probable that he had now come to me for having led his son into a however the tall spare grey headed gentleman who was presently ushered into my presence proved as madame de reas...
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into the bargain meaning me i inquired well answered the young man madame de himself and i noticed that there was a drawn look about his face while all the healthy colour had deserted it i think you might have been more candid with me i can t help saying that i think i might have been more candidly dealt with if it h...
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who seemed scarcely able to put one foot before another what is the matter i exclaimed taking madame de him by the arm what has happened for i saw by his ghastly face that some catastrophe must have occurred what has happened he repeated in a strange thick voice haven t you heard no of course you haven t she is dead ...
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i could only say as i had said in a previous instance that i thought she should be allowed the benefit of the doubt that is all that i can say or think now and although would have been better pleased i suppose madame de if i could have given him the more positive assurance which he he did not consider that the circumst...
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the as was drowned whilst bathing out of a boat yesterday poor fellow he s left a wife and two children there s been a reward of twenty pounds offered for his body that ll be sir it will be yours said i i do not stand in need of money earned in this fashion a memorable swim the body was that of a man of about thirty he...
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might have been that he guessed we should be presently observed through some at us from the pier or cliff he suddenly cried with a furious curse get in get in and letting go his oar he dragged me into the boat flinging me from him so that i fell over an after and lay for a few moments breathless and almost unconscious ...
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there were many people about the air with the cries of inviting the by to go out for a row or a sail a memorable swim none of these men took any notice of me probably none of them knew that i had started in company with the and they would probably imagine that i had returned from a solitary pull out to sea i walked a l...
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it was broken by the footsteps of the clerk going towards the west door to open it in the usual manner for the exit of the assembly before however he had reached the doorway the latch was lifted from without and the dark figure of a man in a sailor s garb appeared against the light the clerk stepped aside the sailor cl...
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gone about dressed herself for a walk one morning and started for s house in the little cross street intelligence of the deep sorrow of her friend on account of the loss of had reached her ears also and her conscience reproached her for winning him away was not altogether satisfied with the sailor she liked his attenti...
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that if captain called she was too to see him however did not call he sent her a note expressing in simple language the to please his wife state of his feelings and asking to be allowed to take advantage of the hints she had given him that her affection too was little more than friendly by the engagement looking out up...
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the boys came in and next sunday returned thanks this time by the more ordinary channel of the in the general but a few days after when the question of the money arose he remarked that she did not seem so satisfied as he had hoped well you see she answered we count by hundreds they count by thousands nodding towards t...
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little more than a window and a counter was in truth her only large customer and mrs s kindly readiness to buy anything and everything without questioning the quality had a sting of bitterness in it for it was the attitude of a patron and almost of a the long dreary winter moved on the face of the had been turned to th...
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neck make him slightly shiver as if a cold wind had passed over him gorgeous i the ghost of the past burning summer time as it was as she stooped her head looking into the little pool where the sea flowers had s read out their ed rays the sunlight caught the fringe at the back of her neck and the brown of her hair was ...
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ghost of the past certain form of jealousy the jealousy the of a pure and inexperienced woman demanding as much as she gave then you have loved before she said a little coldly instinctively taking a ay her hands not as i love you he answered trying to cover his mistake by extra i love you as no man ever loved since th...
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rank and and there is nothing against her why should he break with her because he is only twenty two that is a fault which itself every day i you see we must look at it from his point of view not only our own to you and to us all it may be foolish and premature but to him it is the wisdom and an honourable engagement t...
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well as see like those of men accustomed to danger and dependent for salvation on their own quickness of apprehension and clearness of and the lashes cast the most curious little rim of blackness round the and the red of her lips was of the and most sharply defined outline imaginable no here no mingling of red and whit...
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