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Whilst he stood stricken there, it was the Queen who solved this question. "If, indeed, you have been duped," she said scornfully, her colour high, her eyes like points of steel, "you have been self-duped.
So, it seemed, he had all along been her dupe; all the while that he had been ostentatiously shielding her from harm and diffidently discovering every evidence of devotion, she had been laughing in her sleeve and planning to return to the service she pretended to despise, with her report of a fool self-duped. A great anger welled in his bosom.
But we suspect that in many instances this substitution of subordinate causes for a great substantial one, proceeds from something much worse than such affectation or self-duped extravagance.
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