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244 OUT OF IIEll SPHERE.<br />

the bottle. After all, she had a woman's<br />

nerves about <strong>her</strong> if she had not much else<br />

that was womanly, and possibly if she had<br />

been waiting outside the bedroom door,<br />

while <strong>her</strong> master was speaking to Temple<br />

Masters, she might have heard enough to<br />

try even <strong>her</strong> nerves a little. " I '11 give it<br />

him," she said as she took the bottle<br />

'' thanks to that meddling fool, he wants it<br />

badly enough."<br />

She took a wine-glass in <strong>her</strong> ot<strong>her</strong> hand,<br />

but before a single drop had left the bottle<br />

it dropped out <strong>of</strong> <strong>her</strong> shaking fingers<br />

dropped and broke.<br />

— ;<br />

'' Wasted," said Clare,<br />

and wiped it hastily up, then collected the<br />

pieces <strong>of</strong> glass, and threw them amongst<br />

the ashes <strong>of</strong> the grate. " Shall I send for<br />

anot<strong>her</strong> bottle?" she asked <strong>her</strong>self; "but<br />

who is t<strong>her</strong>e to send to ? Mr. Harben is at<br />

Mrs. Partridge's, and his assistant is n't to<br />

be trusted to sell a pennyworth <strong>of</strong> sticking<br />

plaister. It's no use sending to him ; it's

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