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"Oh, nothing, nothing," was the feeble response, "merely looked in to see how Edith was." "Much the same as at dinner last night, when you were here," answered Blake. "Come, out with it." It seemed the best course now, and Mr. Eppington took the plunge.
You are but my puppets." "Then what do you intend to do?" demanded Mrs. Eppington at length. "Intend! Oh, the right thing of course. We all intend that. I shall send Harry away with a few well-chosen words of farewell, learn to love my husband and settle down to a life of quiet domestic bliss. Oh, it's easy enough to intend!" The girl's face wrinkled with a laugh that aged her.
In that moment it was a hard, evil face, and with a pang the elder woman thought of that other face, so like, yet so unlike the sweet pure face of a girl that had given to a sordid home its one touch of nobility. As under the lightning's flash we see the whole arc of the horizon, so Mrs. Eppington looked and saw her child's life. The gilded, over-furnished room vanished.
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