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118 OUT OF IIER SPHERE.<br />

who was now ashamed <strong>of</strong> the folly <strong>of</strong> his<br />

boyhood, which had led him to seek <strong>her</strong> as<br />

his wife.<br />

" Revenge is sweet." I doubt whet<strong>her</strong><br />

Clare found it so. It was intoxicating,<br />

maddening, requiring all <strong>her</strong> nerve and<br />

self-control to keep <strong>her</strong> moving all day in<br />

the same even track—attentive to <strong>her</strong> pa-<br />

tient, who, happily perhaps for him, would<br />

have heeded little whet<strong>her</strong> she was atten-<br />

tive or not ; civil to the doctor, and suffi-<br />

ciently calm not to excite Deb's suspicions.<br />

Revenge gave <strong>her</strong> quite enough to do to-<br />

day, without leaving <strong>her</strong> time to analyze its<br />

sweetness.<br />

She could not control <strong>her</strong> appetite. After<br />

all, she was not quite so equal to the con-<br />

sumption <strong>of</strong> <strong>her</strong> four meals a day as Deb<br />

imagined. When the latter ran up-stairs to<br />

fetch down <strong>her</strong> tray, and saw the food almost<br />

untouched, she thought better <strong>of</strong> Clare.<br />

'' Yew're like me— can't stumick yewr

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