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He writhed upon his bed as the image of her loveliness returned again and again, her face as she conversed at table, her dignity as she rose with the other ladies, her smile when he said good-night. A smile that meant more than civility; he was convinced of it. But memory would not support him through half-a-year of solitude and ill-divining passion. He would write to her, and risk all.
Christina saw that something had gone very wrong, and was quite frightened lest Theobald should have heard of some serious money loss; he did not, however, at once unbosom himself, but rang the bell and said to the servant, "Tell Master Ernest I wish to speak to him in the dining- room." Long before Ernest reached the dining-room his ill-divining soul had told him that his sin had found him out.
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