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21R, THORNTON SPEAKS AT LAST. 221<br />

his answer. Some instinct told <strong>her</strong> what<br />

was coming. He could never have fathomed<br />

<strong>her</strong> nature. Was it the serpent craft, or<br />

the womanly intuition within <strong>her</strong> that made<br />

<strong>her</strong> sometimes understand him as his wife<br />

had never done ?—which made <strong>her</strong> feel not<br />

one whit surprised, though staggered and<br />

perplexed for the instant, at hearing him<br />

say to Mr. Harben, in the low, tremulous<br />

tones <strong>of</strong> great illness, words which yet<br />

were clearer to Clare's ears than words had<br />

ever been before. " How should my wife<br />

be <strong>her</strong>e to nurse me when you know that<br />

she no longer lives to do it V

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