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Thyrza

CHAPTER XXII
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To let her so much as suspect his feeling were as bad as to utter it; nay, infinitely worse, for it would mean that he must not see her after to-night.

He and she would then be each other's peril in a far direr sense than now.
He replied to her 'I'm so sorry; I shall not be there to-morrow.

I have to go out of London.' He looked her in the face unwaveringly.

It was the look which tormented her, not that which she yearned for.

She could not move away her eyes.
'You are going away, Mr.Egremont ?' 'Yes, I am going out of England for a week or two--perhaps for longer.' It was wrong--all wrong.


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