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56 BLACK SHEEP.he, on the other hand, ever betrayed the slightestyvish or purpose of concealment, which probablywould have aroused Routh's curiosity, and set hisinvestigative faculties to work. He had neverspeculated, even at times when all his callousnessand cynicism did not avail to make him entirelyoblivious of the past, on the possibility ofhis learning anything of the history of PhilipDeane;he had been content to accept it,as wellas its termination, as among the number of theyvonderful mysteries of this wonderful life, andhad, so far as in him lay-, dismissed the matterfrom his mind.Nothing that had everhappenedin his life before had given him such a shock asthe discovery he had made yesterday.The firsteffect on him has been seen; the second,ensuingon his conversation yvith his wife, yvas a blindand desperate rage, of a sort to which he hadrarely yielded, and of yvhose clanger he was dimlyconscious,even at its height. He waslike a manwalking on a rope at a giddy elevation, to whomthe first faint symptoms of vertigo were makingthemsely-es felt, who was invaded by the deathbringingtemptation tolook down andaround him.
DURING THE LULL.57The solemn and emphatic warning of his wifehad had its effect upon his intellect, though hehad hardened his heart againstit. It was whollyimpossible that her invariable judgment, perception,and reasonableness — the qualities to whichhe had owed so much in all theh' former life —could become immediately valueless to a man ofRouth's keenness; he had not yet been turnedinto a fool by his sudden passion for the beautifulAmerican; he still retained sufficientsense towonder and scoff at himself for having beenmade its victim so readily; and he raged and rebelledagainst the conviction that Harriet wasright,but raged and rebelledin vain.In the whirl of his thoughts there was fiercetorture, which he strove unavailingly to subdue:the impossibility of evading the discovery whichmust soon be made; the additional crime bywliich alone he could hope to escape suspicion;a sudden unborn fear that Harriet would failhim in this need — a fear whicli simply signifieddespair — a horrid, baffled, furious helplessness;and a tormenting, overmastering passion for awoman who treated him with all the calculated
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- Page 15 and 16: RECOGNITION. 7fought this false and
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- Page 21 and 22: RECOGNITION. 13cursed his own impru
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- Page 25 and 26: RECOGNITION. 17side of the broad sh
- Page 27 and 28: RECOGNITION.19if you care for that
- Page 29 and 30: RECOGNITION.21men nor women dare to
- Page 31 and 32: " What a degenerate German !" said
- Page 33 and 34: RECOGNITION.25saidMrs.Ireton P. Bem
- Page 35 and 36: A FIRST APPEAL. 27impaired her facu
- Page 37 and 38: A FIRST APPEAL. 29"This cursed thin
- Page 39 and 40: A FIRST APPEAL.31pressing her templ
- Page 41: A FIRST APPEAL. 33Stewart," said Ha
- Page 44 and 45: 36 BLACK SHEEP." Iwill," she said,
- Page 46 and 47: 38 BLACK SHEEP." But how can he dis
- Page 48 and 49: 40 BLACK SHEEP." There are not many
- Page 50 and 51: 42 BLACK SHEEP.in yours — in mine
- Page 52 and 53: 44 BLACK SHEEP.thing,Ican tell you.
- Page 54 and 55: 46 BLACK SHEEP.ask me anything now.
- Page 56 and 57: 48 BLACK SHEEP.man of stronger will
- Page 58 and 59: 50 BLACK SHEEP.you, she knows all a
- Page 60 and 61: 52 BLACK SHEEP.accompany beauty, we
- Page 62 and 63: 54 BLACK SHEEr." Indeed," saidMr. F
- Page 66 and 67: 58 BLACK SHEEP.cruelty of coquetry
- Page 68 and 69: 60 BLACK SHEEP.yvith him just enoug
- Page 70 and 71: 62 BLACK SHEEP.him well enough to s
- Page 72 and 73: 64 BLACK SHEEP.sign which his capto
- Page 74 and 75: 66 BLACK SHEEP." Iam happy to hear
- Page 76 and 77: 68 BLACK SHEEP.ever, yvith hope, yv
- Page 78 and 79: 70 BLACK SHEEP.coming light and eas
- Page 80 and 81: 72 BLACK SHEEP.bleyv and raged over
- Page 82 and 83: 74 BLACK SHEEP.How dreary the place
- Page 84 and 85: 76 BLACK SHEEP.he sawa man standing
- Page 86 and 87: 78 BLACK SHEEP.Rich purple amethyst
- Page 88 and 89: 80 BLACK SHEEP."What a temper you h
- Page 90 and 91: 82 BLACK SHEEP.told you so," he con
- Page 92 and 93: 84 BLACK SHEEP.what is itthat you m
- Page 94 and 95: 86 BLACK SHEEP.will never swerve or
- Page 96 and 97: 88 BLACK SHEEP.as soon as he releas
- Page 98 and 99: 90 BLACK SHEEP.manner, his look yva
- Page 100 and 101: 92 BLACK SHEEP.merous progeny of a
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- Page 106 and 107: 98 BLACK SHEEP.technical sense that
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DURING THE LULL.57<strong>The</strong> solemn and emphatic warning of his wifehad had its effect upon his intellect, though hehad hardened his heart againstit. It was whollyimpossible that her invariable judgment, perception,and reasonableness — the qualities to whichhe had owed so much in all theh' former life —could become immediately valueless to a man ofRouth's keenness; he had not yet been turnedinto a fool by his sudden passion for the beautifulAmerican; he still retained sufficientsense towonder and scoff at himself for having beenmade its victim so readily; and he raged and rebelledagainst the conviction that Harriet wasright,but raged and rebelledin vain.In the whirl of his thoughts there was fiercetorture, which he strove unavailingly to subdue:the impossibility of evading the discovery whichmust soon be made; the additional crime bywliich alone he could hope to escape suspicion;a sudden unborn fear that Harriet would failhim in this need — a fear whicli simply signifieddespair — a horrid, baffled, furious helplessness;and a tormenting, overmastering passion for awoman who treated him with all the calculated
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