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226 OUT OF HER SPHERE.<br />

indeed he had been the means <strong>of</strong> destroying<br />

the woman he had pretended to love ?<br />

Did<br />

he think to avenge <strong>her</strong>? Let him, if he<br />

wished ! He<br />

would tell no falsehoods ;<br />

but surely even the man who had lured <strong>her</strong><br />

to sin would not be vile enough to wish<br />

<strong>her</strong> to rest in a dishonoured grave. If<br />

t<strong>her</strong>e was one thing in which it was possi-<br />

ble that both husband and paramour<br />

could join, surely it would be in preserving<br />

some faint vestige <strong>of</strong> repute to that poor<br />

perished thing.<br />

"What did you want with me?" he<br />

said, when Temple Masters entered. " You<br />

must have some very urgent motive to<br />

bring you <strong>her</strong>e at a time like this."<br />

" Yes, it is urgent," said Temple Masters<br />

—then turning to Clare, who sat at a little<br />

distance, and was at that everlasting crochet<br />

edging—how many yards <strong>of</strong> it had she<br />

done while in the sick room !— " I wo n't

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