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CHAPTER XXIII
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How often the scene of that morning had re-enacted itself in her mind! Often she dreamed it all over, and woke as from a nightmare.

She wished it had not taken place in this church; it troubled the sacred recollections of her maiden peace.

She began to think it over once more, attracted by the pain it caused her, and, on coming to the bestowal of the ring, an odd caprice led her to draw the circlet itself from her finger.

When she had done it she trembled.

The hand looked so strange.


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