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Out of her sphere - University Library

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128 OUT OF HER SPHERE.<br />

stricken down in <strong>her</strong> very prime—murdered,<br />

so the talk ran, by some coward hand.<br />

He could have wept like a woman when<br />

he first heard <strong>of</strong> it. She had gone t<strong>her</strong>e<br />

out <strong>of</strong> sheer kindness to him, and then<br />

this awful fate had overtaken <strong>her</strong>. The<br />

poor dead creature whom they had all<br />

maligned and exposed, whose name they<br />

had linked so cruelly with his, had cleared<br />

<strong>her</strong>self at last. Would they feel a little<br />

shame, a little regret for all the cruel lies<br />

they had said. Even, Milly, <strong>her</strong> friend,<br />

had thought so evilly <strong>of</strong> <strong>her</strong>. It was to be<br />

hoped she would repent <strong>of</strong> <strong>her</strong> injustice<br />

now. '' Let <strong>her</strong> !" he said with great bitter-<br />

ness, " she deserves to suffer 1" He could<br />

not forgive Milly yet, with that poor dead<br />

woman lying t<strong>her</strong>e, <strong>of</strong> whom so causelessly<br />

she had thought such evil things.<br />

Clare and Deb had been summoned not<br />

merely to state what they could <strong>of</strong> their<br />

late mistress's last movements, but that they

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