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Chapter 8 GIFT AND GIVER.
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Carice was in her own room. Her face was pale, her mouth and eyes deeply serious. At last, she had been put in possession of all the facts hitherto concealed1 from her. She knew by what base means she had been separated from Bergan, and married to a man known to be a forger2, suspected to be a murderer, and now a fugitive3 from justice. She was also aware that, so far as her own consciousness went, she had lost a year out of her life. None the less, she felt in her deep heart that her soul had not stood still during this suspension of certain of her faculties4, but had accomplished5 some rapid, sensible growth. She was not, in all respects, the same Carice who had fallen through the gap in the foot-bridge. She contemplated6 her situation with far less dismay and bewilderment than that immaturer self could have done; in some mysterious way, her year of unconsciousness had been also a year of preparation for the difficulties that it had postponed7; she now faced them with a deeper insight, a broader comprehension, and a calmer courage. She blinded herself with no subtleties8 nor evasions9; she dimmed the clear medium of her integrity with no selfish breath; but counted herself what that solemn marriage ceremony had made her—a wife. She must remain such until the plea of "wilful10 desertion for a year," in the courts of law, should secure for her a certain personal freedom. But even then, she would be only a deserted11
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