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220 OUT OF HER SPHERE.<br />

when told <strong>of</strong> his supposed bereavement.<br />

How would it be possible ? That which to<br />

them had been the downfall <strong>of</strong> every hope,<br />

was to him the one deliverance. How could<br />

he seem crushed and overcome by that<br />

which had been his only remedy for a great<br />

and untold ill ?<br />

No, he would not lie t<strong>her</strong>e and let this<br />

man think that he knew nothing <strong>of</strong> his<br />

wife's death, and go away, planning what<br />

he should say the next time he came, and<br />

how little by little the " worst "—oh, God !<br />

if that could hut have been the worst<br />

should be broken to him ! He<br />

—<br />

would not,<br />

while yet under the very shadow <strong>of</strong> death,<br />

be acting and planning subterfuges and<br />

falsehoods. He would speak the truth, let<br />

what might come <strong>of</strong> it to himself Not all<br />

the truth, for fear <strong>of</strong> what might come to<br />

<strong>her</strong>. Let <strong>her</strong> be honoured in <strong>her</strong> grave,<br />

if possible.<br />

Clare drew <strong>her</strong> breath, and waited for

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