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40 OUT OF HER SPHERE.
say Mrs. Thornton is at Beechside. She
might have had a little more consideration
than to keep me up two nights running."
Deb went off very readily, and when she
had gone, Clare crept up to her room, and
brought down Mr. Thornton's garments.
She spread them by the kitchen fire to dry,
and meanwhile sat down, neither to write
her letter, nor trim her bonnet, but to think
matters over.
" Something s happened," she said, but
was afraid, even to her own thoughts, to
reaHze quite what had occurred. She had
hoped, panted, yearned for vengeance, and
it had come so speedily that she was almost
stunned by the realization of her own
wishes. That sleeping man upstairs had
been her unconscious agent. She was not
sorry for him— ^that pale, corpse-like face
she had just seen on the pillow, the weary
hopelessness of the eyes that had met her
on his return home, did not move her to