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Updated: May 18, 2025
I defied him, although I felt no assurance that he might not do this thing. But that day, at any rate, he did not. He talked with his voice rising slowly, through the greater part of the eighth and ninth days threats, entreaties, mingled with a torrent of half-sane and always frothy repentance for his vacant sham of God's service, such as made me pity him.
He gathered up his letter, folded it, and put it into the breast pocket of his coat. But in doing so his fingers touched once more the ragged edges of a bit of frayed paper. Louie! Through all these half-sane days and nights he had never once thought of his sister. She had passed out of his life she had played no part even in the nightmares of his dreams.
It had been a crazed notion enough, and since then she had kept as near to him as possible in the half-sane idea that she might help him. How she had managed to do it ever remained a mystery to Brian, since his marches had been none of the slowest, but she had done so. "Where are your men?" she exclaimed after a little.
Then again the half-sane interval darkened luridly into hallucination, but now it was a new hallucination. The figure of the woman on the couch seemed to move. Instead of the filmy draperies torn by his own hand, she wore the habiliments of poverty and looked at him out of a face of plebeian prettiness; a face of dimly confused features. The apparition rose and stood waveringly upright.
An instinct of fury, which was only half-sane, flooded him. Red spots danced before his eyes. The other had spoken slowly, almost gently, yet he could read only challenge in the words, and the challenge was one he hungered to accept. He made a tremendous effort for self-mastery and rose slowly, turning a white face on his visitor.
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