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Chapter 33
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IN WHICH THERE IS A SINGULAR REVELATION
MADAME MONTFORD returns, unsuccessful, to her parlor1. It is conscience that unlocks the guilty heart, that forces mortals to seek relief where there is no chance of finding it. It was this irresistible3 emotion that found her counciling Tom Swiggs, making of him a confidant in her search for the woman she felt could remove the doubt, in respect to Anna's identity, that hung so painfully in her mind. And yet, such was her position, hesitating as it were between her ambition to move in fashionable society, and her anxiety to atone4 for a past error, that she dare not disclose the secret of all her troubles even to him. She sought him, not that he could soften5 her anxiety, but that being an humble6 person, she could pursue her object through him, unobserved to society-in a word, that he would be a protection against the apprehensions7 of scandal-mongers. Such are the shifts to which the ambitious guilty have recourse. What she has beheld8 in the poorhouse, too, only serves to quicken her thoughts of the misery9 she may have inflicted10 upon others, and to stimulate11 her resolution to persevere12 in her search for the woman. Conscious that wealth and luxury does not always bring happiness, and that without a spotless character, woman is but a feeble creature in this world, she would now sacrifice everything else for that one ennobling charm.
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repentant
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exultation
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countenance
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knelling
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nostrum
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demeanor
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tract
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malice
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admiration
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indifference
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remonstrate
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fidelity
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miserable
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slander
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desolating
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bosom
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conceal
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judgment
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chili
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lone
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consolation
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tainted
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