Madame De Treymes by Edith Wharton
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elusively, ambiguously. "And what's more, you wouldn't believe me if
I told you." "How do you know?" he rejoined. "You didn't believe me once before; and this is so much more incredible." He took the taunt full in the face. "I shall go away unhappy unless you tell me--but then perhaps I have deserved to," he confessed. She shook her head again, advancing toward the door with the evident intention of bringing their conference to a close; but on the threshold she paused to launch her reply. "I can't send you away unhappy, since it is in the contemplation of your happiness that I have found my reward." IX The next day Durham left with his family for England, with the |
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