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lips parted:
"You?" she said, and moved away from him, still gazing at him in a kind
of blank amazement.
"
Why--why, certainly I am. Why do you act like this? What have I done
now?"
"
What have you done? You have certainly made a most strange statement.
You must see that yourself."
"
Well," with a timid little laugh, "it may be a strange enough statement;
but of what consequence is that, if it is true?"
"
"
If it is true. You are already retiring from it."
Oh, not for a moment! You should not say that. I have not deserved it.
I have spoken the truth; why do you doubt it?"
Her reply was prompt.
"
"
Simply because you didn't speak it earlier!"
Oh!" It wasn't a groan, exactly, but it was an intelligible enough
expression of the fact that he saw the point and recognized that there
was reason in it.
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