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The Dead Alive

CHAPTER X
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Give me your hand! God bless you!" She put my hand to her lips before I was aware of her, and kissed it, and ran back into her room.
I sat down on the place which she had occupied.

She had looked at me for one moment when she kissed my hand.

I forgot Ambrose and his confession; I forgot the coming trial; I forgot my professional duties and my English friends.

There I sat, in a fool's elysium of my own making, with absolutely nothing in my mind but the picture of Naomi's face at the moment when she had last looked at me! I have already mentioned that I was in love with her.

I merely add this to satisfy you that I tell the truth..


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