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Out of her sphere - University Library

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A BOLD GAME PLAYED IN VAIN. 63<br />

jou gave me fiYe years ago—the word you<br />

gave me when you and I were boy and girl<br />

toget<strong>her</strong>, and no wicked woman like that<br />

false evil creature, who has broken' <strong>her</strong> hus-<br />

band's heart, and done <strong>her</strong> best to ruin<br />

your life, had come between us."<br />

T<strong>her</strong>e was something <strong>of</strong> passion in <strong>her</strong><br />

tone. She simulated it pretty well. All<br />

the time the man to whom she was plead-<br />

ing, before whom she was half kneeling,<br />

whose hand she was trying in vain '<br />

to<br />

touch—for he had drawn it out <strong>of</strong> <strong>her</strong> reach,<br />

and placed it behind him—felt that he him-<br />

self was not the prize at which she was<br />

aiming ; that for him she cared little ; that<br />

his station and means were all she strug-<br />

gled for ; and, looking on <strong>her</strong>, and going<br />

back to the early folly which she recalled,<br />

remembered that it was true he had once<br />

spoken <strong>of</strong> love, thought <strong>of</strong> it, dreamed <strong>of</strong><br />

it, in connection with the woman before<br />

him.

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