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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV For the sin ye do by two and two ye must pay for one by one I ? Rudyard When Hugh awoke the morning after Lady New- haven's party the day was already far advanced. A hot day had succeeded to a hot night. For a few seconds he lay like one emerging from the influence of morphia, who feels his racked body still painlessly afloat on a sea of rest, but is conscious that it is drifting back to the bitter shores of pain, and who stirs neither hand nor foot for fear of hastening the touch of the encircling, aching sands on which he is so soon to be cast in agony once more. His mind cleared a little. Rachel's grave face stood out against a dark background ? a background darker surely than that of the summer night. He remembered with self -contempt the extravagant emotion which she had aroused in him. Absurd, Hugh said to himself, with the distrust of all sudden springs of pure emotion which those who have misused them rarely escape. And then another remembrance, which only a sleeping-draught had kept at bay, darted upon him like a panther on its prey. He had drawn the short lighter. He started violently, and then fell back trembling. Oh, my God he said, involuntarily. He lay still, telling himself that this dreadful nightmare would pass, would fade in the light of common day. His servant came in noiselessly with a cup of coffee and a little sheaf of letters. He pretended to be asleep; but when the man had gone he put out his shaking hand for the coffee and drank it. The mist before his mind gradually lifted. Gradually, too, the horror on his face whitened to despair, as a twilight meadow whitens beneath the evening frost. He had drawn the short lighter. Nothing in heaven or earth could alter that fact. He did not stop to wonder how ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217040303 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217040306 |
| Weight | 0.92 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.63 In |
| List Price | $20.31 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 280 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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