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Out of her sphere - University Library

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CHECKMATE. 315<br />

to suffer for his share in an attack on a<br />

gamekeeper, he thought he might as well<br />

make a clean breast <strong>of</strong> a crime which had<br />

weighed more heavily on his conscience<br />

than most ot<strong>her</strong>s he had committed.<br />

Mrs. Thornton would not return to <strong>her</strong><br />

home. Anything but that. She left it to<br />

Temple Masters to take what steps he<br />

thought best to prove <strong>her</strong> identity, in<br />

order to clear Audley Dale, but back* to<br />

the Rectory she would not go. She was<br />

not implacable against <strong>her</strong> husband, speak-<br />

ing <strong>of</strong> him with a kind <strong>of</strong> pity, as one<br />

who was not responsible for his actions, but<br />

that, evidently, made <strong>her</strong> dread and horror<br />

<strong>of</strong> him all the greater. And a return to<br />

<strong>her</strong> former life would, she said, be equally<br />

impossible. " How I bore it so long I<br />

can't tell, but I did my best, and did n't<br />

get on. It has done one thing for me;<br />

nursed my voice round, and given me my<br />

strength back again, so that I can see my

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