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McTeague

CHAPTER 21
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I WILL go back." It was as though he were climbing a hill that grew steeper with every stride.

The strange impelling instinct fought his advance yard by yard.

By degrees the dentist's steps grew slower; he stopped, went forward again cautiously, almost feeling his way, like someone approaching a pit in the darkness.

He stopped again, hesitating, gnashing his teeth, clinching his fists with blind fury.
Suddenly he turned the mule about, and once more set his face to the eastward.
"I can't," he cried aloud to the desert; "I can't, I can't.

It's stronger than I am.


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