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vision declaring that when personal happiness conflicts with any great

hu co it She had not liked the secrecy which

her shelter involved, no refined te of the law, in itself, had given her no particular concern;

behind her excusing platitudes she had always been coer at Benjaht's contempt had only

roused her to buttress her shelter with declarations that she was not

har and his wife,

in the midst of decorously mournful Old Chester, she knew she could

never say that any more; not only because a foolish and ill-balanced

youth had been unable to survive a shattered ideal, but because she

began suddenly and with consternation to understand that the whole

vast fabric of society rested on that sa it! Her breath caught, strangling, in her throat

In the crack of the pistol and the crash of ruined family life she

heard for the first tiument of her

life to other lives; and at that sound the very foundation of those

excuses of her right to happiness, rocked and crumbled and left her

selfishness naked before her eyes