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Out of her sphere - University Library

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VNL UGKY A UDLEY DALE. 95<br />

woman in a strange place, and that people,<br />

not understanding, judged <strong>her</strong> hardly—and<br />

all the time<br />

"<br />

"Well, and all the time," said Audley<br />

fiercely, " all the time, do you mean to say<br />

that she or I were the false unworthy crea-<br />

tures your mot<strong>her</strong>, in <strong>her</strong> wisdom, would<br />

make us out. Whatever she might say or<br />

do, Milly, I credited you with at least a<br />

grain <strong>of</strong> sense, as well as something like<br />

Christian charity."<br />

He was more angry than ever, perhaps<br />

because he was beginning to feel himself<br />

more and more in the wrong. All that<br />

Milly said, pointed to Clare as the authoress<br />

<strong>of</strong> the letter she had received, and to his own<br />

past folly, as deepening, if it had not ori-<br />

ginated, this miserable entanglement, and<br />

he wanted to burst the toils in which it had<br />

involved him, with a high, fierce hand, in-<br />

stead <strong>of</strong> patiently and humbly unravelling<br />

them. If he would even now have told

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