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Out of her sphere - University Library

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MR. THORNTON SPEAKS AT LAST. 209<br />

wife who had wronged him. He accepted<br />

the fact without remorse or compunction.<br />

All along, <strong>her</strong> death had seemed the only<br />

possible solution <strong>of</strong> the dreadful problem<br />

caused by <strong>her</strong> dishonour, but now ot<strong>her</strong><br />

complications were arising which he had<br />

not foreseen. Deb had spoken to him as<br />

to one who was concerned ^for his wife's<br />

loss. Would not people look for some<br />

show <strong>of</strong> grief from him, some decent na-^<br />

tural sorrow, and how could he manifest<br />

such ? Would t<strong>her</strong>e not be wonders and<br />

questionings, if he were calm and un-<br />

moved ? and if he did give way, if he did<br />

show all that <strong>her</strong> death had cost him,<br />

would not that be lifting up the veil which<br />

hid <strong>her</strong> life, and telling them the very<br />

thing which above all, even for that poor<br />

dead sinner's sake, he would most avoid ?<br />

He had no fear for himself Let them<br />

do their worsts what was Hfe to him ?<br />

Onlyj^ if they ever knew how she had come<br />

VOL. ni. 14

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