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The Judgment House

CHAPTER III
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A little cruelty would give you a better sense of proportion in colour--and everything else.

You have orientalism, but little or no orientation." Here, now, standing before the fire, was that possible husband who, no doubt, was selfish, and had capacities for cruelty which would give her greater proportion--and sense of colour.

In Byng's palace, with three millions behind her--she herself had only the tenth of one million--she could settle down into an exquisitely ordered, beautiful, perfect life where the world would come as to a court, and-- Suddenly she shuddered, for these thoughts were sordid, humiliating, and degrading.

They were unbidden, but still they came.

They came from some dark fountain within herself.


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