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Updated: May 29, 2025

"Did you ever so much as read them, I wonder?" All the demons of self-torture were up in her now, and she loosed them on him, as if to escape from their rage. Deering hardly seemed to hear her question. He merely shifted his attitude, leaning a little nearer to her, but without attempting, by the least gesture, to remind her of the privilegeswhich such nearness had once implied.

Edith Wharton - Tales of Men and Ghosts