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CHAPTER FOUR--THE GOVERNESS
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He was, with a young man's squeamishness, rather sick of her ferocity.

He did not understand it.

Men do not accumulate hate against each other in tiny amounts, treasuring every pinch carefully till it grows at last into a monstrous and explosive hoard.

He had run out after her to remind her of the balance at the bank.

What about lifting that money without wasting any more time?
She had promised him to leave nothing behind.
An account opened in her name for the expenses of the establishment in Brighton, had been fed by de Barral with deferential lavishness.


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