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CHAPTER VII
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WHEN Dearing had gone blithely1 down the street, Galt strode up and down the veranda2, hot and cold, by turns, with fury and remorse3.
“To think that any man could lecture me like that, while I have had to stand and take it like a sneaking4 coward!” he fumed6. “I am not a jot7 worse than thousands of others who were led astray by passion. I had to do as I did. I couldn’t give up what I had sought so long, and fought for so fiercely. She knew it; she admitted there was nothing else to do. All these years she has not once reproached me, and she has kept her word—the secret is ours. Wynn says she has advanced, that her solitary8 life has only ripened9 her beauty of mind and body, and she is the mother of my child—the little fellow I held in my arms the other day, the outcome of a marriage as sacred under high heaven as any ever solemnized at an altar.” He groaned11 as he remembered how he and Dora used to boast that their superior mental attitude, and the height and glory of their troth, as compared to the dull code of the vulgar herd12, had made them a law unto themselves. He had sown the seeds of such logic13 in the rich soil of her trusting, girlish inexperience. He had led her, as a candle leads a moth10, on to the yawning
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parental
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brass
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valiant
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corpses
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nurtured
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