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"Yes, yes," she said, evidently trying to suppress her jealous

thoughts "But if only you kneretched I a?"

But he could not at once recall what he had been going to say

These fits of jealousy, which of late had been more and more

frequent with her, horrified hiuise the fact, h he knew

the cause of her jealousy was her love for him How often he had

told himself that her love was happiness; and now she loved hihed for her all the good

things of life--and he was much further from happiness than when

he had followed her froht himself

unhappy, but happiness was before him; now he felt that the best

happiness was already left behind She was utterly unlike what

she had been when he first saw her Both ed for the worse She had broadened out all over,

and in her face at the ti of the actress

there was an evil expression of hatred that distorted it He

looked at her as a athered,

with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked

and ruined it And in spite of this he felt that then, when his