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THE servant left them together. Mercy spoke first.
"Mr. Gray!" she exclaimed, "why have you delayed my message? If you knew all, you would know that it is far from being a kindness to me to keep m...
《The New Magdalen》Chapter 28 - Sentence Is Pronounced On Her
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2008/7/15
IT was done. The last tones of her voice died away in silence.
Her eyes still rested on Horace. After hearing what he had heard could he resist that gentle, pleading look? Would he forgive her? A ...
《The New Magdalen》Chapter 27 - Magdalen's Apprenticeship
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"MR. JULIAN GRAY has asked me to tell him, and to tell you, Mr. Holmcroft, how my troubles began. They began before my recollection. They began with my birth.
"My mother (as I have heard her say) ...
《The New Magdalen》Chapter 26 - Great Heart And Little Heart
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THERE was a pause.
The moments passed--and not one of the three moved. The moments passed--and not one of the three spoke. Insensibly the words of supplication died away on Julian's lips. Even his...
HE stopped just inside the door. His first look was for Mercy; his is second look was for Julian.
"I knew it!" he said, with an assumption of sardonic composure. "If I could only have persuaded La...
《The New Magdalen》Chapter 24 - Lady Janet's Letter
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THE narrative leaves Lady Janet and Horace Holmcroft together, and returns to Julian and Mercy in the library.
An interval passed--a long interval, measured by the impatient reckoning of suspense-...
THE narrative leaves Julian and Mercy for a while, and, ascending to the upper regions of the house, follows the march of events in Lady Janet's room.
The maid had delivered her mistress's note to...
《The New Magdalen》Chapter 22 - The Man In The Dining-Room
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IN the great emergencies of life we feel, or we act, as our dispositions incline us. But we never think. Mercy's mind was a blank as she descended the stairs. On her way down she was conscious of noth...
《The New Magdalen》Chapter 21 - The Footstep In The Corridor
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2008/7/15
MERCY was alone.
She had secured one half hour of retirement in her own room, designing to devote that interval to the writing of her confession, in the form of a letter addressed to Julian Gray. ...
JULIAN looked round the room, and stopped at the door which he had just opened.
His eyes rested first on Mercy, next on Grace.
The disturbed faces of both the women told him but too plainly th...
RECOVERING from the first overpowering sensation of surprise, Mercy rapidly advanced, eager to say her first penitent words. Grace stopped her by a warning gesture of the hand. "No nearer to me," she ...
《The New Magdalen》Chapter 18 - The Search In The Grounds
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GRACE ROSEBERRY, still listening in the conservatory, saw the door open, and recognized the mistress of the house. She softly drew back, and placed herself in safer hiding, beyond the range of view fr...
《The New Magdalen》Chapter 17 - The Guardian Angel
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2008/7/15
"You were here when I fainted, were you not?" Mercy began. "You must think me a sad coward, even for a woman."
He shook his head. "I am far from thinking that, "he replied. "No courage could have ...
ABSORBED in herself, Mercy failed to notice the opening door or to hear the murmur of voices in the conservatory.
The one terrible necessity which had been present to her mind at intervals for a w...
HAVING warmed his feet to his own entire satisfaction, Horace turned round from the fireplace, and discovered that he and Lady Janet were alone.
"Can I see Grace?" he asked.
The easy tone in w...