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The Short Works of George Meredith

CHAPTER X
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She spoke of feeling Chloe's eyes go through her with every word of hers that she recollected.

Nor was the end of Chloe less effective upon the traitor.

He was in the procession to her grave.

He spoke to none.

There is a line of the verse bearing the superscription, "My Reasons for Dying," that shows her to have been apprehensive to secure the safety of Mr.Camwell: I die because my heart is dead To warn a soul from sin I die: I die that blood may not be shed, etc.
She feared he would be somewhere on the road to mar the fugitives, and she knew him, as indeed he knew himself, no match for one trained in the foreign tricks of steel, ready though he was to dispute the traitor's way.


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