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CLARE GEO WS FER VO US. 233<br />

nourished had at last wrought him up to<br />

this, and that the poor vain thing had in-<br />

deed paid so dear a penalty for <strong>her</strong> folly ?<br />

He could only feel pity, not anger, for the<br />

man before him. He must have suffered<br />

so awfully before he did this thing. How<br />

was it that he did not suffer now ? Had<br />

his illness prostrated him too utterly, or<br />

was the mind affected? If the last was<br />

the fact. Temple knew that now he shouM<br />

hear the truth. He felt that for the man<br />

before him it would be an easier thing to<br />

commit a murder than to tell a lie.<br />

" You seem very sure <strong>of</strong> it," he said, after<br />

a pause ;<br />

*' so sure that one would almost<br />

think you knew how Mrs. Thornton came<br />

by <strong>her</strong> end. Were you with <strong>her</strong> when she<br />

died r<br />

The ot<strong>her</strong> turned away. "What right<br />

have you to come and ask these questions ?<br />

She is dead— is not that enough ? What<br />

more should any one want to know V

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