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Diana of the Crossways

CHAPTER VI
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I have the misfortune to know I was born an active.

I take my chance.' Once she coupled the names of Lord Larrian and Lord Dannisburgh, remarking that she had a fatal attraction for antiques.
The death of her husband's uncle and illness of his aunt withdrew her to The Crossways, where she remained nursing for several months, reading diligently, as her letters showed, and watching the approaches of the destroyer.

She wrote like her former self, subdued by meditation in the presence of that inevitable.

The world ceased barking.

Lady Dunstane could suppose Mr.Warwick to have now a reconciling experience of his wife's noble qualities.


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