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CHAPTER IV
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The vehemence1 with which Susan Dixon threw herself into occupation could not last for ever. Times of languor2 and remembrance would come—times when she recurred3 with a passionate4 yearning5 to bygone days, the recollection of which was so vivid and delicious, that it seemed as though it were the reality, and the present bleak6 bareness the dream. She smiled anew at the magical sweetness of some touch or tone which in memory she felt and heard, and drank the delicious cup of poison, although at the very time she knew what the consequences of racking pain would be.
“This time, last year,” thought she, “we went nutting together—this very day last year; just such a day as to-day. Purple and gold were the lights on the hills; the leaves were just turning brown; here and there on the sunny slopes the stubble-fields looked tawny7; down in a cleft8 of yon purple slate-rock the beck fell like a silver glancing thread; all just as it is to-day. And he climbed the slender, swaying nut-trees, and bent9 the branches for me to gather; or made a passage through the hazel copses, from time to time claiming a toll10. Who could have thought he loved me so little?—who?—who?”
Or, as the evening closed in, she would allow herself to imagine that she heard his coming step, just that she might recall the feeling of exquisite11 delight which had passed by without the due and passionate
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relish
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luxurious
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yew
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steward
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guardian
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regain
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scanty
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parsimonious
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avarice
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unreasonableness
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bonnet
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misty
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latch
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monotonous
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mutation
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middle-aged
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demon
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peril
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loutish
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possessed
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binding
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prone
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mischief
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exhausted
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vigour
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imploring
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