His Other Wife: A Novel — page 179: what you’re looking at

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AN ECLAIRCISSEMENT, 171 despised himself for such moments of weak emotional sentiment, with which his higher nature had no sympathy. To her own shallow soul there seemed nothing deeper nor wider than existed in the domain of sensuous and emo- tional life, and she could not for-a moment compre- hend how the mortal and the immortal part of a man might be at direct variance—how the flesh and the spirit - might cast lots over the prize of a true man’s honor. That she still had power to make the delicate sensations of this noble being vibrate to her touch, gave her the most intense happiness, and filled her vain heart with hopes of a perfect triumph. | Remembering all this, and thinking on him as he had just left her, with a fierce, indignant scorn in his eye, and withering contempt upon his proud lip, she abandoned herself to the benumbing despair that has been described. But under all this lay a consuming fear of the direct and personal disaster that was like to grow out of the present situation of affairs. As much as Croft she looked for and dreaded the result of Rachel’s wrath on account of the misadventure of the previous day; and although to some extent she knew herself to be guilty of complicity in Faith’s disappearance, inasmuch as she had connived at Vernois’ taking the girl away from her protection, she had never counted on any immediate consequences attending this indiscretion on her part. It would have been the most consummate folly to have tempted her fate by a de- > Jiberate act like lending herself to Vernois’ villainous de- Eomicbooks: (E(@) 3