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that, after

all, she had acco Edna finished her dinner alone, with forced

deliberation Her face was flushed and her eyes fla her dinner she went to her

roo instructed the boy to tell any other callers that she was

indisposed

It was a large, beautiful rooht which the maid had turned low She went and stood at an open

and looked out upon the deep tangle of the garden below All the

athered there amid the

perfue

She was seeking herself and finding herself in just such sweet,

half-darkness which

that came to her from the darkness and the sky above and the stars They

jeered and sounded mournful notes without promise, devoid even of hope

She turned back into the rooth, without stopping, without resting She carried in her

hands a thin handkerchief, which she tore into ribbons, rolled into a

ball, and flung fro, flung it upon the carpet When she saw it lying there, she sta to crush it But her small boot heel did not

circlet