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She cahted a candle, and, setting it upon the table between us, put

back the hood of her cloak, and looked at me, while I stood mute

before her, abashed by the accusation of her eyes

"Coward!" she said, and, with the word, snatched the neckerchief

fro it upon the floor, set her foot upon

it "Coward!" said she again

"Yes," I reat darkness, and

full of a horror of cohts and days, and so--I would have

run away from it all--like a coward--"

"Oh, hateful--hateful!" she cried, and covered her face as from

some horror

"Indeed, you cannot despise me more than I do s, except, perhaps,

theof horseshoes--and this world has no place for

failures--and as for horseshoes--"

"Fool," she whispered "Oh, fool that I drea! Oh,and unspoiled!--that it should end here--that it

should coh she kept her face hidden, I

knew that she eeping "A woman's love transforms the man