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The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

CHAPTER XXIII
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She must have returned.

Why should she have left for good without writing?
He caught suspicion by the throat, making it voiceless, if it lived: he silenced reason.

Her not writing was now a proof that she had returned.

He listened to nothing but his imperious passion, and murmured sweet words for her, as if she were by: tender cherishing epithet's of love in the nest.

She was there--she moved somewhere about like a silver flame in the dear old house, doing her sweet household duties.


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