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HOW CLARE WAITED. 117<br />

valve. She went through the day list-<br />

lessly and wearily, wondering when it would<br />

come to an end, and what news t<strong>her</strong>e would<br />

be before nightfall, while Clare sat upstairs,<br />

sewing, and tending <strong>her</strong> patient mecha-<br />

nically, and wondering, too, whet<strong>her</strong> indeed<br />

the Fort would give that up which for the<br />

last five weeks she had felt convinced it<br />

held.<br />

" They'll find it if they look long enough,"<br />

she said.<br />

With all <strong>her</strong> stoicism, Clare could not<br />

resist the influence <strong>of</strong> the day. Should she<br />

learn before it closed that the woman who<br />

had mocked and taunted <strong>her</strong>—done so far<br />

worse than sneer at <strong>her</strong> servitude, gibe at<br />

<strong>her</strong> for <strong>her</strong> plain, unlovely face—was now<br />

for ever powerless to utter sc<strong>of</strong>lP or sneer ?<br />

That vengeance had been given <strong>her</strong>, fuller,<br />

completer, than she had ever dreamed <strong>of</strong><br />

that vengeance, deeper, deadlier still, was<br />

within <strong>her</strong> reach ;<br />

—<br />

vengeance upon the man

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