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Considering all that had befallen during the last half-hour or

so, it was not very surprising, I think, that I should have

forgotten the very existence of this woh

she had been chiefly instru it all about, and

to have her recalled to my recollection thus suddenly (and,

moreover, the possibility that I reatly, and I remained, for sorossed by the thought of this

woman

"A dark, fierce, Aht) already atteht;

further (therefore unleamed wild in the shadow of her hair And yet

my dismay arose not so much from any of these as from the fact

that she was a woarded the sex very much from a distance, and a

little askance, as creatures naturally illogical, and given to

unreasoning is whose lives were

made up of petty trifles and vanities, ere sent into this

gross world to be admired, petted, occasionally worshipped, and

frequently married