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CHAPTER XXII
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She had known none of the absolute horrors of life which were possible in that underworld which was not likely to touch her own existence in any form.
“Why,” had argued Mademoiselle Vallé, “should one fill a white young mind with ugly images which would deface with dark marks and smears1, and could only produce unhappiness and, perhaps, morbid2 broodings? One does not feel it is wise to give a girl an education in crime. One would not permit her to read the Newgate Calendar for choice. She will be protected by those who love her and what she must discover she will discover. That is Life.”
Which was why her first discovery that neither door could be opened, did not at once fill her with horror. Her first arguments were merely those of a girl who, though her brain was not inactive pulp3, had still a protected girl’s outlook. She had been overwhelmed by a sense of the awkwardness of her position and by the dread4 that she would be obliged to disturb and, almost inevitably5, embarrass and annoy Lady Etynge. Of course, there had been some bungling6 on the part of the impudent7 footman—perhaps actually at the moment when he had given his sidelong leer at herself instead of properly attending to what he was trying to do. That the bedroom was locked might be the result of a dozen ordinary reasons.
The first hint of an abnormality of conditions came after she had rung the bells and had waited in vain for response to her summons. There were servants whose business it was to answer bells at once. If all the bells were out of order, why were they out of order when Hélène was to return in a few days and her apartment was supposed to be complete? Even to the kittens—even to the kittens!
“It seems as if I had been locked in,” she had whispered to the silence of the room. “Why did they lock the doors?”
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sincerity
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monstrousness
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frenzy
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defiance
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delve
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intensity
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celebrated
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tapestries
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gilded
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carnation
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countenance
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knightly
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