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"... may be so absorbed in the sudden and strange surprise of the change Browning as to be quite unable to partake of excruciation, even with a twin sister.... It is very disagreeable to think of, I admit. But so is nearly every concrete form in which one clothes an imaginary other-worldliness." "Why is it disagreeable to think of being able to shake off one's troubles, and forget all about them.
"Well then, how much will you give for six months?" I was on the point of exclaiming and the air of excruciation in my face would have denoted a moral face "Don't, Juliana; for HIS sake, don't!" But I controlled myself and asked less passionately: "Why should I remain so long as that?" "I thought you liked it," said Miss Bordereau with her shriveled dignity. "So I thought I should."
She reached the stage, in the gradual excruciation of her nerves, when she was obliged to concentrate her agonized mind on an intense and painful expectancy of the next new noise, which when it came increased her torture and decreased her strength to support it.
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