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Sohastly sense that he alone

would be responsible for whatever unhappiness should be brought upon

her for whom he almost solely lived, whom to retain under his roof he

had faced the nu up the best

part of his house to Fitzpiers There was no room for doubt that, had

he allowed events to take their natural course, she would have accepted

Winterborne, and realized his old drea

man's family

That Fitzpiers could allow himself to look on any other creature for a

rief and astonishment In the

pure and simple life he had led it had scarcely occurred to hiht be faithless That he could sweep to the

heights of Mrs Charmond's position, lift the veil of Isis, so to

speak, would have amazed Melbury by its audacity if he had not

suspected encouragement from that quarter What could he and his

simple Grace do to countervail the passions of such as those two

sophisticated beings--versed in the world's ways, armed with every

apparatus for victory? In such an encounter the hoe before the precise weapons

ofdrew on The village was

silent, one to the fair Fitzpiers had

retired to bed, and was sleeping off his fatigue She went to the