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64 OUT OF HER SPHERE.<br />

Something <strong>of</strong> such thoughts burst in-<br />

voluntarily from his lips as he turned from<br />

<strong>her</strong>.<br />

*' To think that I should ever have<br />

been such a fool !" he cried, and felt<br />

ashamed and humbled as he thought <strong>of</strong><br />

Milly Lisdale, and wondered how, after<br />

having stooped to Charlotte Clare, he could<br />

ever have dared to raise his eyes to <strong>her</strong>.<br />

" Is that all you have to say V said Clare<br />

sullenly, and, drawing <strong>her</strong>self back from<br />

him, she stood and glared with <strong>her</strong><br />

green eyes, like a wild creature about to<br />

spring. If he had only known it, she was<br />

dangerous as any savage denizen <strong>of</strong> the<br />

forest—even more so—she would not aim at<br />

life alone. It seemed as if a life had been<br />

given <strong>her</strong> in answer to <strong>her</strong> yearning for<br />

revenge, and she was not satisfied t<strong>her</strong>e-<br />

with, she would kill name, repute, all that<br />

made life worth living, if she had <strong>her</strong> will.<br />

" You won't do me right," she continued,<br />

" and you know what you have promised me

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