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A Life’s Morning

CHAPTER VII
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Thinking thus, it was natural that she should avail herself of every motive for delay.

And in that very wretchedness of her home which her marriage would, she trusted, in a great measure alleviate, she found one of the strongest.

The atmosphere of sordid suffering depressed her; it was only by an effort that she shook off the influences which assailed her sadder nature; at times her fears were wrought upon, and it almost exceeded her power to believe in the future Wilfrid had created for her.

The change from the beautiful home in Surrey to the sad dreariness of Banbrigg had followed too suddenly upon the revelation of her blessedness.

It indisposed her to make known what was so dreamlike.


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