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cried, in a rush of hatred, and getting up, she was going away

"No!" he shrieked, in his shrill voice, which pitched a note

higher than usual even, and his big hands clutching her by the

arm so violently that red , he forcibly sat her down in her place

"Base! If you care to use that word, what is base is to forsake

husband and child for a lover, while you eat your husband's

bread!"

She bowed her head She did not say what she had said the

evening before to her lover, that _he_ was her husband, and her

husband was superfluous; she did not even think that She felt

all the justice of his words, and only said softly: "You cannot describe my position as worse than I feel it to be

all this for?"

"What arily

"That you may know that since you have not carried outoutward decorus"

"Soon, very soon, it will end, anyway," she said; and again, at

the thought of death near at hand and now desired, tears came

into her eyes