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CHAPTER XIII DEAD-LOCK
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Louis had wakened up a few minutes before Rachel returned to the bedroom from that most wonderfully conscientious2 spell of silver-cleaning. He was relieved to find himself alone. He was ill, perhaps very ill, but he felt unquestionably better than in the night. He was delivered from the appalling3 fear of death which had tortured and frightened him, and his thankfulness was intense; and yet at the same time he was aware of a sort of heroical sentimental4 regret that he was not, after all, dead; he would almost have preferred to die with grandeur5, young, unfortunate, wept for by an inconsolable wife doomed6 to everlasting7 widowhood. He was ashamed of his bodily improvement, which rendered him uncomfortably self-conscious, for he had behaved as though dying when, as the event proved, he was not dying.
When Rachel came in, this self-consciousness grew terrible. And in his weakness, his constraint8, his febrile perturbation which completely destroyed presence of mind, he feebly remarked—
"Did any one call yesterday to ask how I was?"
As soon as he had said it he knew that it was inept9, and quite unsuitable to the role which he ought to play.
Rachel had gone straight to the dressing-table, apparently10 ignoring him, though she could not possibly have failed to notice that he was awake. She turned sharply and gazed at him with a look of inimical contempt that aggrieved11 and scarified him very acutely. Making no answer to his
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apprehensions
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confession
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