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She traced the remainder of the woodland track dazed by the

complications of her position If his protestations to her before

their e could be believed, her husband had felt affection of

some sort for herself and this wo the same emotion over Mrs Char still kind and fond at times But surely, rather than

that, he must have played the hypocrite towards her in each case with

elaborate coht of this sickened her, for it

involved the conjecture that if he had not loved her, his onlyher his wife must have been her little fortune Yet here

Grace made a mistake, for the love of men like Fitzpiers is

unquestionably of such quality as to bear division and transference

He had indeed, once declared, though not to her, that on one occasion

he had noticed himself to be possessed by five distinct infatuations at

the sahest affection as the

lower orders of the ani, not death, but a multiplied existence He had loved

her sincerely, and had by no means ceased to love her now But such

double and treble barrelled hearts were naturally beyond her conception

Of poor Suke Daht no more She had had her day