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CHAPTER FOUR--THE GOVERNESS
18/89

"The subterfuges of a menaced passion are not to be fathomed.

You think it is going on the way it looks, whereas it is capable, for its own ends, of walking backwards into a precipice.
When one once acknowledges that she was not a common woman, then all this is easily understood.

She was abominable but she was not common.

She had suffered in her life not from its constant inferiority but from constant self-repression.

A common woman finding herself placed in a commanding position might have formed the design to become the second Mrs.de Barral.


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