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"Oh God!" said Winterborne within himself His head was turned askance

as he still resolutely regarded the ground For the last several

hi, the social sin, of now taking

advantage of the offer of her lips had a nitude, in the eyes of one

whose life had been so primitive, so ruled by purest household laws, as

Giles's, which can hardly be explained

"Did you say anything?" she asked, timidly

"Oh no--only that--"

"Youho valiantly against hih he would have protected Grace's good repute as the apple

of his eye--was a ods In

face of the agonizing seductiveness shown by her, in her unenlightened

school-girl simplicity about the laws and ordinances, he betrayed a

man's weakness Since it was so--since it had co herself free to do it, was virtually asking him to

demonstrate that he loved her--since he could demonstrate it only too

truly--since life was short and love was strong--he gave way to the

te that he perfectly well knew her to be