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Life a the people involved in these events seemed to be suppressed

and hide-bound for a while Grace seldoarden; for she feared she ht encounter

Giles Winterborne; and that she could not bear

This pensive intramural existence of the self-constituted nun appeared

likely to continue for an indefinite time She had learned that there

was one possibility in which her forht

become real, and only one; that her husband's absence should continue

long enough to amount to positive desertion But she never allowed her

ht; still less did she deliberately

hope for such a result Her regard for Winterborne had been rarefied

by the shock which followed its avowal into an ethereal e

As for Giles, he was lying--or rather sitting--ill at his hut A

feverish indisposition which had been hanging about hiht the previous winter, seemed to acquire

virulence with the prostration of his hopes But not a soul knew of

his languor, and he did not think the case serious enough to send for a

ain, and crept about his