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Oh, get out of my sight! I wish to God I had never seen you! I hope to God I may never see you again! Go! Go! Go!' This was the end! To Harold's honest mind such words would have been impossible had not thoughts of truth lain behind them.

That Stephen--his Stephen, whose image in his mind shut out every other woman in the world, past, present, and future--should say such things to any one, that she should think such things, was to him a deadly blow.

But that she should say them to him!.

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