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Out of her sphere - University Library

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ON THE PIER.<br />

251<br />

grace, the stain, the supposed guilt, will<br />

rest upon him T<br />

" I do ; the legal evidence will not be<br />

sufficient ; I do n't see how they can make<br />

it so; but it is not legal evidence that<br />

society will judge and condemn him by."<br />

'' I understand you," said Milly. They<br />

were at the extreme end <strong>of</strong> the Pier now,<br />

and had stopped mechanically, as people<br />

were in the habit <strong>of</strong> stopping when t<strong>her</strong>e,<br />

as if to look about them. T<strong>her</strong>e was no-<br />

thing in all that wide expanse <strong>of</strong> ocean,<br />

with <strong>her</strong>e and t<strong>her</strong>e a ship breaking its<br />

vast monotony, or in the grey sunless sky<br />

above, to tempt the eye to-day. All was<br />

chill, bare, bleak, and hopeless. Milly<br />

Lisdale, not an imaginative girl, felt it so,<br />

as she leaned against the railings <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Pier. What a w<strong>of</strong>ul difference from that<br />

bright sunny day, when, amidst flowers<br />

and sunshine, with laughter and music<br />

filling the air, she had plighted <strong>her</strong> faith

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