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Dear Clifford, I am afraid what you foresaw has happened. I am really in love with another man, and do hope you will divorce me. I am staying at present with Duncan its his flat. I told you he was at Venice with us. I'm awfully2 unhappy for your sake: but do try to take it quietly. You don't really need me any more, and I can't bear to come back to Wragby. I'm awfully sorry. But do try to forgive me, and divorce me and find someone better. I'm not really the right person for you, I am too impatient and selfish, I suppose. But I can't ever come back to live with you again. And I feel so frightfully sorry about it all, for your sake. But if you don't let yourself get worked up, you'll see you won't mind so frightfully. You didn't really care about me personally. So do forgive me and get rid of me.
Clifford was not inwardly surprised to get this letter. Inwardly, he had known for a long time she was leaving him. But he had absolutely refused any outward admission of it. Therefore, outwardly, it came as the most terrible blow and shock to him, He had kept the surface of his confidence in her quite serene3.
And that is how we are, By strength of will we cut of four inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of dread4, or apprehension5, which makes the blow ten times worse when it does fall.
Clifford was like a hysterical6 child. He gave Mrs Bolton a terrible shock, sitting up in bed ghastly and blank.
`Why, Sir Clifford, whatever's the matter?'
No answer! She was terrified lest he had had a stroke. She hurried and felt his face, took his pulse.
`Is there a pain? Do try and tell me where it hurts you. Do tell me!'
No answer!
`Oh dear, oh dear! Then I'll telephone to Sheffield for Dr Carrington, and Dr Lecky may as well run round straight away.'
She was moving to the door, when he said in a hollow tone:
`No!'
She stopped and gazed at him. His face was yellow, blank, and like the face of an idiot.
`Do you mean you'd rather I didn't fetch the doctor?'
`Yes! I don't want him,' came the
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14 tangled | |
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15 sobs | |
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16 woe | |
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17 chagrin | |
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18 contagion | |
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19 fret | |
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20 sobbing | |
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25 mighty | |
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26 shameful | |
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27 relaxation | |
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28 perverse | |
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29 exultation | |
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30 perversity | |
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31 rebuked | |
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32 intimacy | |
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33 rendering | |
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34 potency | |
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35 entirely | |
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36 harp | |
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37 perverted | |
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39 remarkable | |
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40 inhuman | |
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42 manly | |
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48 bullying | |
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50 harassment | |
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51 decided | |
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52 deity | |
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53 connived | |
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54 rambling | |
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55 perfectly | |
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56 whatsoever | |
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57 haughtiness | |
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58 embedded | |
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59 fabric | |
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60 derangement | |
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61 WHIMS | |
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62 whim | |
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64 decency | |
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68 bumptious | |
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69 lout | |
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70 miserable | |
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71 weirdly | |
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72 foul | |
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73 obstinacy | |
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75 inclination | |
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76 contriving | |
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77 lodging | |
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79 soothing | |
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80 solaced | |
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81 grumble | |
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82 anatomy | |
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83 royalties | |
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84 apathetic | |
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85 doomed | |
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86 doom | |
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87 spout | |
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88 Soviet | |
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89 muddle | |
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90 scarlet | |
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91 embroider | |
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92 emblems | |
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94 cults | |
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95 fend | |
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96 abide | |
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97 fretting | |
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98 chaste | |
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99 philander | |
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100 misery | |
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101 abominable | |
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102 steer | |
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