The Man in Possession — page 246: what you’re looking at

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THE MAN IN POSSESSION. 241 CHAPTER XXIIL AN UNEXPECTED MEETING. ‘‘SHE” was very, very far from relenting, if the two people who had been discussing her could only have had the gift of second sight, and glanced at the figure pacing to and fro in the little shabby drawing-room. Kate had the fiery, impulsive Irish temperament, so quick to love and hate—so passionate in its resent- ment of outrage or affront. When Tom Rivers had left her she was in a downright towering rage. There is no other word for it—a good, honest, towering rage, that was bound to work itself out before she could calmly or dispassionately consider the matter. But the feeling was too violent to last. The fierce anger which swelled in her bosom seemed to gather in an hysterical sob and almost suffocate her. She threw herself on the couch, and gave way to a tem- pest of tears which left her weak and faint, but still coldly resentful. She could never forgive him—of that she felt cer- tain. He was unworthy, ungenerous, contemptible, and yet, try as she might, she could not forget his plea, that love for her had led him to commit those follies, and place himself in so contemptible an atti- tude. She found herself contrasting the two parts : 16 ECOMNCE OOO SS) (SO