Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices by Charles Dickens;Wilkie Collins
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nor more, did she know that?
'There were spots of ink upon the bosom of her white dress, and they made her face look whiter and her eyes look larger as she nodded her head. There were spots of ink upon the hand with which she stood before him, nervously plaiting and folding her white skirts. 'He took her by the arm, and looked her, yet more closely and steadily, in the face. "Now, die! I have done with you." 'She shrunk, and uttered a low, suppressed cry. '"I am not going to kill you. I will not endanger my life for yours. Die!" 'He sat before her in the gloomy Bride's Chamber, day after day, night after night, looking the word at her when he did not utter it. As often as her large unmeaning eyes were raised from the hands in which she rocked her head, to the stern figure, sitting with crossed arms and knitted forehead, in the chair, they read in it, "Die!" When she dropped asleep in exhaustion, she was called back to shuddering consciousness, by the whisper, "Die!" When she fell upon her old entreaty to be pardoned, she was answered "Die!" When she had out-watched and out-suffered the long night, and the rising sun flamed into the sombre room, she heard it hailed with, "Another day and not dead?--Die!" 'Shut up in the deserted mansion, aloof from all mankind, and engaged alone in such a struggle without any respite, it came to |
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