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A Dark Night’s Work

CHAPTER XVI AND LAST
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I always knew it must be found out.
Once more, good-by, and thank you.

I may take this letter, I suppose ?" said she, casting envious loving eyes at her father's note, lying unregarded on the table.
"Oh! certainly, certainly," said he; and then he took her hand; he held it, while he looked into her face.

He had thought it changed when he had first seen her, but it was now almost the same to him as of yore.

The sweet shy eyes, the indicated dimple in the cheek, and something of fever had brought a faint pink flush into her usually colourless cheeks.
Married judge though he was, he was not sure if she had not more charms for him still in her sorrow and her shabbiness than the handsome stately wife in the next room, whose looks had not been of the pleasantest when he left her a few minutes before.

He sighed a little regretfully as Ellinor went away.


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