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The Amazing Marriage

CHAPTER IV
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Who was this person suddenly conjured up?
She fancied she might not have heard correctly; she feared to ask and yet she perceived a novel softness in him that would have answered.

Pain of an unknown kind made her love of her brother conscious that if she asked she would suffer greater pain.
The house was in sight, a long white building with blinds down at some of the windows, and some wide open, some showing unclean glass: the three aspects and signs of a house's emptiness when they are seen together.
Carinthia remarked on their having met nobody.

It had a serious meaning for them.

Formerly they were proud of outstripping the busy population of the mine, coming down on them with wild wavings and shouts of sunrise.

They felt the death again, a whole field laid low by one stroke, and wintriness in the season of glad life.


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