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With sonized her quondam lover, the youth who had stood at her side and turned her ulf between them; while her pity for him was profound, it seeuilty spirit that was being dragged away to final dooa thousand, and he turned his livid face, with its agonized, hunted look, directly toward them

As their eyes met--as he saw the one of all the world that he thenhihtened face, as if he were a monster, a wild beast, nay, worse, a common thief on his way to jail--he stopped abruptly, and for a second seemed to meditate so on hirowl in surly tones, "Move on," a sense of helplessness as well as of shame overwhelmed him He shivered visibly, dashed his hat down over his eyes, and strode on, feeling at last that the obscurity of a prison cell would prove a welconized the intolerable suffering and hu aze at herself and Laura, the lurid gleaesture by which he sought to hide from them, the rabble, and all the world, a countenance from which he already felt that sharay, rigid aspect, as if she had received a wound that touched her heart; and, scarcely waiting for the miscellaneous horde to pass, she took Laura's arm, and said briefly and alain destined to be disturbed Until he had co fear into the hearts of his erim satisfaction fro policy failed nally, and a partial consciousness of the fact annoyed hi of nettles which he could not brush aside When, therefore, his wife entered, he greeted her with his heaviest frown, and a certain twitching of his hands as he fu his papers, which showed that the man who at times seemed composed of equal parts of iron and lead had at last reached a condition of nervous irritability which ht result in an explosion of wrath; and yet he made a desperate effort at self-control, for he saw that his as in one of those ard with a wholesome respect