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Evan Harrington

CHAPTER XXXIX
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He returned to the little parlour, shut and locked the door to the shop, and forgetting that one was near, sat down, covered his eyes, and gave way to a fit of tearless sobbing.
With one foot in the room Caroline hung watching him.

A pain that she had never known wrung her nerves.

His whole manhood seemed to be shaken, as if by regular pulsations of intensest misery.

She stood in awe of the sight till her limbs failed her, and then staggering to him she fell on her knees, clasping his, passionately kissing them..


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