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fair fame here in the latter you lose it this marriage has to be in either case by the first mr escapes free by the second he suffers with me said quietly that i know and am prepared for was s answer and companionship in misfortune is pleasant she returned if you are really set on this absurd bit of you shall smart for...	45
living nature with gold and colour when they met it was st as if they too were ghosts with the rest but that momentary hesitation of each passed like a cloud and their hands clasped one the other too frankly for even the shadow of doubt shall we never bury our dead he asked will you never forgive me never me not while...	45
but after a while one grew wiser or less and learnt discretion which is the better part of charity it was a good school for me in many ways though i did not like being sent to it people talk of genteel poverty as being the worst sort of it but at the risk of thought material and commonplace i venture to remark that abj...	45
be seen like this you will break her heart i said on the contrary it is my business to mend it not that i had the least belief in what she said for indeed i began to think that her o s remorse sister might be a natures of i had seen more than one in my east end practice poor creatures that were not good enough or bad e...	45
golden frame a greater contrast to her sister it was not possible for one woman to be to another presently she seemed to recover herself a little and i ventured to put to her a few questions founded upon what had told me she answered them very gently but in so a tone that they might well as in her case have had no pers...	45
her beauty was of the kind that is heightened rather than otherwise by delicacy of constitution even disease only rendered it more exquisite it reminded me i s remorse of the lily of the whom youth makes so fair and passion so frail that the light of its tremulous bells is seen through their of tender green so transpar...	45
head then i will give your sister s maiden name bent she was not my sister sir she was no relative at all put no relative then indeed you may say you have done your duty to your neighbour s remorse my duty she answered with bitter scorn and throwing up her great hands it was i who murdered her it was not till some day...	45
believe she said that deserved thanks it was owing to me that my poor dear mistress so young so beautiful so tender had fallen into the hands of a villain and unfit as she was to bear hardships was compelled to live upon a crust was it to my credit that these hands which had taken his provided the crust if miss had com...	45
he echoed indifferently oh yes i have seen the greater part of it frequently how does it end is it a he shrugged liis shoulders i don t know he answered contemptuously i always walk out of the house just before the last is miss o not on the stage in that i asked she is not he replied out an oath or two and trembling wi...	45
little jim you must have heard it perhaps i have i replied pitying his distress a is it a man f if you would care to read my press notices he began putting his hand into his pocket i can not to night i interposed hurriedly i can repeat most of them he said brightly rather tell me why you gave up a profession i said wh...	45
great sacrifice you made i said gently but doubtless it had its reward did she give you her hand in exchange for the no he answered we were not married until a year after that she was grateful to me but soon we quarrelled again the fact is that i took a call which she insisted was meant for her she felt that disappoint...	45
will think the revenge i took as cold blooded as it seemed to her you must understand that though our pieces were splendidly the o had fifty of herself done at her own expense and all framed these she got our agent in advance to exhibit in the best places in the best shops and undoubtedly they added to her fame they is...	45
for we have the same interests the same joys the same sorrows that is to say you have both only her fame to think of now may i ask did she for whom you made such a sacrifice make any sacrifice for you she did indeed he answered for four is it a weeks she let her name be printed in the bills thus miss o mrs james though...	45
a nice wife who had sense if it were ever the golden rule possible that he could be able to marry would be the saving of jack ah yes said mrs if he could have had an income to marry on an income of his own but if the money is all on the woman s side and a father to look after her to tie it up oh it isn t that i am for...	45
about money said jack more and more alarmed they know i ve got no money there is no use entering upon that there is use in entering upon a great many things the said father what do you mean you are not going to you don t mean to spoil my chance cried the young man the only chance i ever may have in my life the said ...	45
solemnly in black and doubtless had other peculiarities besides his accent but the was not at sufficient ease to remark them i heard only this morning he said of the engagement if it is an engagement between your daughter and my son jack and i came up to town instantly to see you the golden rule if it is an engagemen...	45
they would think it at home too that he had tried to put a the golden rule spoke in his son s wheel and jack would think it with more reason but he felt that he had not another word to say have you got anything more to tell me in this hole and corner way the other father asked the shook his head what does it matter wha...	45
to the to stay do you hear to stay and make acquaintance with everything and papa has fallen deep in love with him and you are to behave sir like a saint or an angel or i will lose all my credit with everybody from this day the went home i need not say with a load lifted from his heart he had delivered his soul and yet...	45
my said for example should break this and marry any of the persons so then and in that case i will and devise that she shall all claim to the general s will said sum of twenty thousand pounds three per cent standing in the name of my said which sum shall thereafter be divided into two equal of ten thousand pounds each ...	45
as english in every way as you or i are and he only about three hundred a year and he couldn t marry on that but the dreadful thing of it all is this he s an american citizen and he s never been i my lips it was clear at once this was a hopeless case there was nothing for it but to comfort her and with her and i comfo...	45
with you to help me i m sure i can earn enough for both of us it was only that horrid horrid shadow that stood between us i knew he was right so i stood still and allowed him two minutes later mrs came in upon us i suppose i looked horribly flushed and but i understood i was engaged to arthur general s will v next day ...	45
my sake he said and you can see me as his in this year s town and country library published semi monthly i he steel hammer by louis eve a novel by s for fifteen years a to the steel hammer by a counsel of perfection a novel by ttie a romance by hall a virginia inheritance by an of by the author of v ra the right honour...	45
observer the and which made a social departure by the same author last season the best read and most talked of book of travel for many a year the new book and appear between the of every standard union so a book as this on life in london as observed by an american has never before been written philadelphia with and go...	45
volume for vivacity and cheerful comment they will not be disappointed for the little book is from cover to cover outlook a border by author of a of the west etc we confess to a great liking for the tale mr tells there are of trouble ere the devoted lovers secure the tying of their love knot and mr describes them all ...	45
is anything in the handling to which exception can be taken like former productions of this pen the obscure is simply an endeavor to give shape and to a series of or personal impressions the question of their or their of their or their being regarded as not of the first moment t h august i contents part i page at i xi ...	45
the frame work his face wearing the of a who has felt the of what before his time the well into which he was looking was as ancient as the village itself and from his present position appeared as a long circular perspective ending in a shining of quivering water at a distance of a hundred feet there was a of green moss...	45
go home and never let him see him in one of those fields again leaped out of arm s reach and walked along the weeping not from the pain though that was keen enough not from the perception of the flaw in the scheme by which what was good for god s birds was bad for god s gardener but with the awful sense that he had wh...	45
the city the farmer had said he was never to be seen in that field again yet lay across it and the path was a public one so stealing out of the hamlet he descended into the same hollow which had witnessed his punishment in the morning never an inch from the path and climbing up the long and tedious ascent on the other ...	45
veiled in the obscure mist turning to the west he saw that the sun had disappeared the of the scene had grown dark and near objects put on the hues and shapes of he anxiously descended the ladder and started homeward at a run trying not to think of giants the hunter lying in wait for christian or of the captain with th...	45
your head on t other way before you could read what they read there why asked the boy oh they never look at anything that folks like we can understand the continued by way of passing the time on y foreign tongues used before the flood when no two families spoke alike they read that sort of thing as fast as a night hawk...	45
captured only at great risk to life and limb though he already had his doubts about this gentleman s felt him be unquestionably a travelled personage and one be a source of information on matters not strictly professional i s pose you ve been to physician i have many times replied the long thin man that s one of my it...	45
him to abandon his scheme the piano was despatched and waited days and weeks calling every morning at the cottage post office before his great aunt was stirring at last a packet did indeed arrive at the village and he saw from the ends of it that it contained two thin books he took it away into lonely place and sat dow...	45
bj r and though may have had little chance of becoming a scholar i by these rough and ready means he was in the way of getting into the he wished to follow while he was busied with these ancient pages which had already been by hands possibly in the grave digging out the thoughts of these minds so remote yet so near the...	45
being available and his studies a while occupied his spare half hours in the heads and in his parish church there was a stone of a humble kind in alfred and as soon as he had found a substitute for himself in his aunt s little business he offered his services to this man for a trifling here had the opportunity of learn...	45
the slight sounds of voices and laughter that had mingled with his dreams he mounted the bank and looked over the fence on the farther side of the stream stood a small having a garden and pig attached in front of it beside the brook three young women were kneeling with and beside them contain a x j at ing heaps of pigs...	45
spoken this without a smile and the disappeared felt himself drifting strangely but could not help it will you let me i don t mind by this time she had managed to get back one by turning her face aside for a moment and repeating the odd little operation before mentioned being still unconscious of more than a general im...	45
across the room such an event he had already arrayed himself in his clothes in three minutes he was out of the house and descending by the path across the wide vacant hollow of corn ground which lay between the village and the isolated house of in the dip beyond the as he walked he looked at his watch he could be back ...	45
is true i like it well enough but it is bad to read on and i find coffee better but this seems all right i can t touch it she mentioned three or four that she detected in the liquor beyond and much to s surprise how much you know he said good ly nevertheless she returned to the beer and drank her share and they went o...	45
again as he had promised would have been his wish if he had had only the week to live an hour and a half later came along the same way with her two companions of the saturday she passed the scene of the kiss and the willow that marked it though chattering freely on the subject to the other two and what did he tell ee n...	45
ground it became apparent that they would have to run all the way to the farmer s if they wished to get at him from this summit he could be seen as a minute speck following an line towards the farm it is no good cried he ll be there long before we get there it don t matter now we know he s not lost or stolen on the way...	45
t come in why are you in such a hurry to go in to night it is not near dark wait a moment said she she tried the handle of the door and found it locked ah they are gone to church she added and searching behind the she found the key and unlocked the door now you ll at come in a moment she asked lightly we shall be all ...	45
standing before the the two swore that at every other time of their lives they would assuredly believe feel and desire precisely as they had believed felt and desired during the few preceding weeks what was as remarkable as the undertaking itself was the fact that nobody seemed at all surprised at what they swore s aun...	45
worked hard the whole twelve hours and had retired to rest before his wife when she came into the room he was between sleeping and waking and was barely conscious of her before the little looking glass as he lay one action of hers however brought him to full her face being reflected towards him as she sat the obscure h...	45
can t be put off there s no more for the pig he ate the last mixing o meal yesterday morning yesterday morning what has he lived on since nothing what he has been starving yes we always do it the last day or two to save bother with the in what ignorance not to know that that accounts for his crying so poor creature we...	45
for his neglect of the killing by zeal in the and felt dissatisfied with himself as a man at what he had done though aware of his lack of common sense and that the deed would have amounted to the same thing if carried out by the white snow stained with the blood of his wore an look to him as a lover of justice not to s...	45
even now he might battle with his evil r and follow out his original intention by moving to a spot a little way off he uncovered the horizon in a direction there actually rose the faint a small dim hardly save by the eye of faith it was enough for him he would go to as soon as the term of his expired j he returned to h...	45
years and what mattered a night s rest for once high against the black sky the flash of a lamp would show and down obscure apparently never trodden now by the foot of man and whose very existence seemed to be forgotten there would into the path of enriched and design their extinct air being by the of the stones it seem...	45
how shall we excuse the of the pagan and philosophic world to those evidences miracles which were presented by the of greece and rome turned aside from the awful spectacle and appeared unconscious of any alterations in the moral or physical government of the world then the shade of the poet the last of the how the worl...	45
however that he was not to bring disturbance into the family by going to see the girl or her relations a affectionate fellow promised nothing put the photograph on the mantel piece kissed it he did not know why and felt more at home she seemed to look down and over his tea it was cheering the one thing him to the emo...	45
and her relations sue s parents his aunt believed had gone to london but the girl remained at to make her still more objectionable she was an artist or of some sort in what was called an which was a perfect seed bed of and she was no doubt abandoned to on that account if not quite a miss was of her date as was rather ...	45
it would be wrong the second was that they were cousins it was not well for cousins to fall in love even when circumstances seemed to favor the passion the third even were he free in a family like his own where marriage usually meant a tragic sadness marriage with a blood relation i would the adverse conditions and a t...	45
ve seen her about here and there why yes she s the daughter of that clever chap who did all the wrought at st s ten years ago and went away to london afterwards i don t know what he s doing now not much i fancy as she s come back here meanwhile the young woman had knocked at the office door and asked if mr was at wor...	45
was always at home a knock brought him to the school house door with a candle in his hand and a look of inquiry on his face which had grown thin and since last set eyes on him that after all these years the meeting with mr should be of this homely complexion destroyed at one stroke the which had surrounded the s figure...	45
met at last we needn t quarrel because our parents did need we did not like to let her quite see how much he agreed with her and went his way to the remote street in which he had his lodging to keep sue near him was now a desire which without regard of consequences and the next evening he again set out for fearing to t...	45
sure this man doesn t it is made after the best maps based on actual visits to the city as it now exists li t r ru i we have had enough of u i she said j p r not descended from the jews x w w as nothing first rate about the place people after x i q f as there was about rome r f l tb p r old cities wi but my dear girl...	45
the neighbor told also of sue s accomplishments in other kinds she was not exactly a you know but she could do things that only boys do as a rule i ve seen her hit in and steer down the long slide oh yonder pond with her little curls blowing one of a file of twenty moving along against the sky like shapes painted on g...	45
yourself as a working man i venture to think that you will have a much better chance of success in life by remaining in your own sphere and sticking to your trade than by any other course that therefore is what i advise you to do yours faithfully t to mr j stone this terribly sensible advice exasperated he had known al...	45
t hate me and despise me like all the rest of the world you are ill poor dear no i won t despise you of course i won t come in and rest and let me see what i can do for you now lean on me and don t mind with one hand holding the candle and the other supporting him she led him in doors and placed him in the only easy ch...	45
he duly looked about for a hotel and found a little establishment of that description in the street leading from the station when he had had something to eat he walked out into the dull winter light over the town bridge and turned the corner towards the close the day was the obscure and standing under the walls of the ...	45
marry you now don t be such a silly boy he has said something about it i expect if he had what would it matter an old man like him oh come sue he s not so very old and i know what i saw him doing not kissing me that i m certain no but putting his arm round your waist at il tt ah i remember bat i didn t know he was g...	45
her reading at this the seventy murmured the sentence being they thought too severe a round robin was prepared and sent in to the principal asking for a of sue s punishment no notice was taken towards evening when the geography mistress began her subject the girls in the class sat with folded arms you mean that you are...	45
suit and giving the garments a shake said now how long shall i give you ten minutes left the room and went into the street where he walked up and down a clock struck half past seven and he returned sitting in his only arm chair he saw a slim and fragile being as himself on a sun the obscure day so pathetic in her that ...	45
about what was written in an old book like the bible i won t disturb your convictions i really won t she went on soothingly for now he was rather more ruffled than she but i did want and long to some man to high aims and when i saw you and knew you wanted to be my comrade i shall i confess it thought that man might b...	45
at all and i ll never say again that you mustn t at now i won t write any more about that you do forgive your thoughtless friend for her cruelty and won t make her miserable by saying you don t ever sue it would be superfluous to say what his answer was and how he thought what he would have done had he been free which...	45
see her oftener than she desired the school being such an awkward place for and because of her strong wish that her engagement to him should not be known which it would be if he visited her often over these phrases the school master what precise shade of satisfaction was to be gathered from a woman s gratitude that the...	45
in its lines i had no idea that it was of this nature god forbid no no said aghast i thought you understood i mean that were i in a position to marry her or some one and settle down instead of living in lodgings here and there i should be glad what he had really meant was simply that he loved her but since this painfu...	45
if she s wicked she asked quickly she s pretty enough as far as that goes prettier than i am no doubt you are not the least alike and i have never seen her for years but she s sure to come back they always do how strange of you to stay apart from her like this said sue her trembling lip and throat her you such a relig...	45
view of things and had taken breakfast apart what oppressed was the thought that having done a wrong thing of this sort himself he was and the woman he loved in doing a like wrong thing instead of imploring and warning her against it it was on his tongue to say you have quite made up your mind after breakfast they went...	45
it that they were instead of more sensitive as more and less ro or were they more heroic or was sue simply so perverse that she gave herself and him pain for the odd and mournful luxury of in her own person and of being touched with the obscure tender pity for him at having made him practise it he could perceive that h...	45
little he wrote to sue informing her of the state of her aunt and suggesting that she might like to see her aged relative alive he would meet her at road the following evening monday on his way back from if she could come by the up train which crossed his down train at that station next morning accordingly he went on t...	45
quarter of an hour and i ll vanish up the street of this picturesque city she handed the change over the counter in taking which he caught her fingers and held them there was a slight struggle and and he bade her good bye and left had looked on with the eye of a dazed philosopher it was extraordinary how far removed fr...	45
parted watched her disappear in the direction of the hotel and entered the railway station close by finding that it wanted three quarters of an hour of the time at which he could get a train back to he strolled mechanically into the city as far as to the where he stood as he had so often stood before and surveyed chief...	45
marriage in bewildered him lest what he might say should do his ignorant wife an injury their talk proceeded but awkwardly till they reached the obscure that sue was not as she had been but was whenever he wanted to with her as an individual yet she seemed he could not say why there remained the five mile extra journe...	45
there be certain men here and there that no at woman of any can stomach i should have said he was one i don t say so now since you must ha known better than i but that s what i should have said sue jumped up and went out followed her and found her in the crying don t cry dear said in distress she means well but is ve...	45
out to be a strangely composition as they all sang it over and over again its grew upon and moved him exceedingly when they had finished he went round to the to make inquiries the score was in manuscript the name of the being at the head together with the title of the hymn the foot of the cross yes said the he is a loc...	45
was too late to act upon its contents but he had himself considerably of late and at last his expedition to really did seem to have been another special of providence to keep him away from temptation but a growing impatience of faith which he had noticed m himself more tha n once of him pass over in ridicule the idea t...	45
now she will you be carving out at that church again next week where you learned the pretty hymn at yes perhaps that will be very nice shall i come and see you there it is in this direction and i could come any afternoon by train for half an hour no don t come what aren t we going to be friends then any longer as we u...	45
wife who passed her time here r v the obscure she had opened a work box and was looking at a photograph having contemplated it a little while she pressed it against her bosom and put it again in its place then becoming aware that she had not obscured the windows she came forward to do so candle in hand it was too dark ...	45
made bad husbands and wives certainly we make unhappy ones at all events i do for one sue was silent is it wrong she said with a tremor for a husband or wife to tell a third person that they are unhappy in their marriage if a marriage ceremony is a religious thing it is possibly the obscure wrong but if it is only a so...	45
you awake he said no i was awake how was that oh you know now i know you with your religious doctrines think that a married woman in trouble of a kind like mine a mortal sin in making a man the of it as i did you i wish i hadn t now the obscure don t wish it dear he said that may have been my view but my doctrines and...	45
living away from him with another husband and himself in love the loved one s revolt against her state being possibly on his account he had sunk to be barely respectable according to views it was not for him to consider further he had only to the obvious which was that he had made himself quite an as a law abiding rel...	45
of me to ask it it is irregular s the obscure but t do ask it domestic laws should be made according to which should be if people are at all peculiar in character they have to suffer from the very rules that produce comfort in others will you let me but we married what is the use of thinking of laws and she burst out ...	45
peopled paradise but i won t trifle to me e ven though i have not been kind to you i will go away go abroad mid u you nearly an hour passed and then he returned an answer i do not wish to pain you how well you know i don t give me a little time i am disposed to agree to your last request one line from her thank you fr...	45
as it had been above but soft and so that when he had walked a mile or two he was obliged to wipe his face with his handkerchief william at sh leaving hill on the left he proceeded without hesitation through the shade as a man goes on night or day in a district over which he has played as a boy he had walked altogether...	45
oh i am not going to be a philosopher any longer i only see what s under my eyes well i don t agree with your instinct dick said gravely i am quite amazed to tell the truth that such a fellow as you should have entertained such a for a moment you said when i called that she was and peculiar i think you are have you eve...	45
when it was done closed the box and turned the key there he said to adorn her in somebody s eyes never again in mine i four and twenty hours before this time sue had written the following note to it is as i told you and i am leaving to morrow evening richard and i thought it could he done with less after dark i feel ra...	45
her forehead against the corner of the i thought you might do it and that i was deceiving you but i didn t mean that in the pause which followed s eyes fixed themselves with a expression on the opposite seat well i he said well he remained in silence but seeing how he was she put her face against his cheek murmuring do...	45
independent views you are as to the social code as any woman i know not mentally but i haven t the courage of my views as i said before i didn t marry him altogether because of the scandal but sometimes a woman s being loved gets the better of her conscience and she is at the thought of treating a man cruelly she him t...	45
t understand me either women never do why should you get into such a about nothing looking up from the she replied if it hadn t been for that perhaps i would have gone on to the hotel after all as you proposed for i was beginning to think i did belong to you oh it is of no consequence said i thought of course that she...	45
very ill and and as i know that you recognize other feelings between man and woman than physical love i have come i am not very ill my dear friend only the obscure i didn t know that and i am afraid that only a severe illness would have justified my coming yes yes and i almost wish you had not come it is a little too ...	45
by a more fixed and composed one at she s been here since you called last said not mrs yes ah you have made it up no she just came patted my pillow with her little white hand played the thoughtful nurse for half an hour and went away i m hanged a little what do you say nothing what do you mean i mean what a capricious ...	45
is dissolved when it is dissolved there is this advantage in being poor obscure people like us that these things are done for us in a rough and ready fashion it was the same with me and i was afraid her criminal second marriage would have been discovered and she punished but nobody took any interest in her nobody inq...	45
sue who was regarding the distance had acquired a guilty look and she suddenly replied in a tragic voice i don t think i like you to day so well as i did don t you why oh well you are not nice too though i suppose i am so bad and worthless that i deserve the utmost of no you are not bad you are a dear but as slippery...	45
open a window said whoever it is cannot be expected to be let in at this time he accordingly went into his bedroom and lifted the the obscure street of early retiring work people was empty from end to end save of one figure that of a woman walking up and down by the lamp a few yards off who s there he asked is that mr...	45
obscure but she wasn t that s just what i hold there s the absurdity well you ll come straight back after a few minutes won t you dear she is too low too coarse for you to talk to long and was always perhaps i am coarse too worse luck i have the of every human infirmity in me i verily believe that was why i saw it was...	45
latter had not yet risen she halted on the turn of her toe till cried from the bed come in and shut the door which sue accordingly did lay facing the window and did not at once turn her head and sue was wicked enough despite her to wish for a moment that could behold her now with the daylight full upon her she may have...	45
his arm and they went along silently together as true comrades do he saw that she was and to question her oh i ve been talking to her she said at last i wish i hadn t and yet it is best to be reminded of things i hope she was civil yes i i can t help liking her just a little bit she s not an nature and i am so glad h...	45
living with my father and mother all that is easily as i had separated from you before i thought such a thing was going to happen and i was over there and our quarrel had been sharp i did not think it convenient to write about the birth i was then looking out for a good situation so my parents took the child and he has...	45
on her lap in which was a the woman opened the cover now and then whereupon the would put out its head and indulge in playful at these the fellow passengers laughed except the solitary boy bearing the key and ticket who regarding the with his eyes seemed to say all laughing comes from rightly looked at there is no thin...	45
never mind time may right things and sue darling i have an idea we ll and train him with a view to the university i d n t a r my own person perhaps i carry out through they are making fo easier for poor students now you k now oh you a aid she and holding his hand returned to the child with him the boy looked at her a...	45

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