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The Rosary

CHAPTER X
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One hour of realisation was her right.

Afterwards she must bring HERSELF into the problem,--her possibilities; her limitations; herself, in her relation to him in the future; in the effect marriage with her would be likely to have upon him.

What it might mean to her did not consciously enter into her calculations.

Jane was self-conscious, with the intense self-consciousness of all reserved natures, but she was not selfish.
At first, then, she left her room in darkness, and, groping her way to the curtains, drew them back, threw up the sash, and, drawing a chair to the window, sat down, leaning her elbows on the sill and her chin in her hands, and looked down upon the terrace, still bathed in moonlight.
Her window was almost opposite the place where she and Garth had talked.

She could see the stone lion and the vase full of scarlet geraniums.


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