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refused to recognise, but she shuddered Before she could recover

herself Madge broke out again, 'It has happened to hter has wrecked your peace for ever!'

'And he has abandoned you?'

'No, no; I told you it was I who left hiood's custom, when any evil neas suddenly

communicated to her, to withdraw at once if possible to her own rooe, rose, and, without a word, went

upstairs and locked her door The struggle was terrible So ht, so much care, such an education, such noble qualities, and

they had not accohters were able to achieve! This fine life, then, was a

failure, and a perfect exaone the way of the coured in

the county newspaper She was shaken and bewildered She was

neither orthodox nor secular She was too strong to be afraid that

what she disbelieved could be true, and yet a fatal weakness had been

disclosed in what had been set up as its substitute She could not

treat her child as a sinner as to be tortured into soable punishment, but, on the other hand, she

felt that this sorroas unlike other sorrows and that it could

never be healed For some time she was powerless, blown this way and

that way by contradictory storms, and unable to determine herself to

any point whatever She was not, however, new to the teht she one down

She had learned the wisdo At last she prayed and in a few e

hispered to her She went into the breakfast-rooe Neither uttered a word, but Madge fell down

before her, and, with a great cry, buried her face in herfor a rebuke, but

none ca hands on her head and the

soft ied