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OUT OF HER SPHERE.
she would have left it before the tide came
up ? It seemed so horrible to think of
that kind, good-tempered, friendly creature
battling for her life in the waters, and he
almost within ear-shot of her cries. Then,
was there any foundation for what Clare had
said as regarded Mr. Thornton's jealousy of
him and her ? He could never be so in-
sane ? What man in his senses could have
construed the pleasant, friendly liking they
entertained for each other into anything of
a different nature ? And Mr. Thornton,
wrapped up in so many thoughts of another
world, so many schemes of salvation, would
be the last surely to harbour such idle imagi-
nations. He could not have anything to do
with his wife's disappearance. She might
have left him in a fit of pique at some imagined
neglect— perhaps by this time had
returned. News from Wearmouth did not
reach Drowsehead—he did not even hear
from Milly ; she having prudently declined