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Out of her sphere - University Library

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CHAPTEE VII.<br />

HOW CLARE WAITED.<br />

"TTTEEK after week had gone on, and<br />

^ * Harold Thornton still lay hanging<br />

between life and death. Now and then<br />

something <strong>of</strong> semi-consciousness returned.<br />

He knew w<strong>her</strong>e he was—knew that Clare<br />

was in attendance upon him, and that he<br />

was ill ; then he remembered his wife, and<br />

the remembrance had, at least, nothing <strong>of</strong><br />

remorse in it. As he had said over and<br />

over again, what else was t<strong>her</strong>e for him to<br />

do ? How could they go on as they were ?<br />

How could he let <strong>her</strong> live to sink lower and<br />

lower into infamy ? And <strong>of</strong> the justice <strong>of</strong>

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