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Vivian stretched out his hand; he took the slice; he lifted it up, and then the cake saw his red mouth open yes, open wider than it could have believed possible wide enough to show two dreadful rows of little sharp white things. "Good gra " it began. But it never said "cious." Never at all. For in two minutes Vivian had eaten it!! And there was an end of its airs and graces.
Hence her pity for the man who so persistently loved on to his own injury and per- manent gloom had betrayed Bathsheba into an injudi- cious considerateness of manner, which appeared almost like tenderness, and gave new vigour to the exquisite dream of a Jacob's seven years service in poor Boldwood's mind.
It is so delicious about Alice and me. Over in the jail a rumor began that I was considered insane and would be examined. Then came Doctor White, and said he had come to see 'the thyroid case. When they left we argued about the matter, neither of us knowing which was considered `suspi- cious. She insisted it was she, and, as it happened, she was right.
I am afraid she cannot be convinced or will not, I should say," she said, slowly, at the end of the recital. "What a villain, what a coward he is!" "But she must not be sacrificed, Frances! She must be saved. Good God, can't something be done to drag her from the clutches of that scoundrel?" he almost groaned. "The clutches of her mother are more cious than those of the prince.
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