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Out of her sphere - University Library

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230 OUT OF HER SPHERE.<br />

from the deep and had said in his horror<br />

at their ghastliness that that could not be<br />

the woman he had loved—not those the<br />

eyes whose light he had revelled in—not<br />

those the Hps his once had pressed in the<br />

very hearing <strong>of</strong> the husband he had wronged<br />

Let him learn the truth. Let him learn<br />

that she was torn from him at last— gone<br />

w<strong>her</strong>e passion should never tempt, nor sin<br />

soil <strong>her</strong> more. Ay ! if that were all—let<br />

him learn everything, and that this woman<br />

might have been living still, happy and<br />

honoured in <strong>her</strong> rightful place, had it not<br />

been that he had lowered <strong>her</strong> to depths<br />

from which death alone could raise <strong>her</strong>.<br />

He looked Temple Masters full in the<br />

face, and with white lips said<br />

—<br />

'* I can give you no help to bring <strong>her</strong><br />

back ; she is gone w<strong>her</strong>e no mortal hand<br />

can reach <strong>her</strong> ; I can send no message by<br />

you that she will heed. One Voice alone<br />

can ever raise <strong>her</strong> now. You say that she<br />

!

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