The Mission of Poubalov — page 180: what you’re looking at

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176 POUBALOVW’S REVOLUTION. upon him, like an insidious vine whose twining : choke the growth of a sapling, Paul wondered that pe Litizki’s devotion had not the sooner driven him to ma ness. He saw that, with all its evils, the situation nee made clear to Clara. He would continue his observatic during the next forenoon, and then report to her. q Poubaloy had said that he would call in the eyenin Clara, therefore, in the early afternoon went to see Mi White. She went with no purpose of accomplishing an thing in the mystery, but rather as an act of xine report how she had found Lizzie; but as she was about turn into Ashburton Place, she saw Paul at the foc the hill and she waited for him to come up. He had jj started for Roxbury. “T have something to tell,’ he said in answer to h anxious look of inquiry, ‘‘but I fear it is nothing that a ) be helpful, and it will certainly be disagreeable.”’ +: ‘‘T was going to call on Mrs. White,’’ responded Clar ‘‘suppose you go with me; but you can tell me what y: ) have discovered before we go in.”’ 4 “Tf you think best,’’ and Paul hesitated. ‘*] do. Have no fear of me. Have I not learned to endt anything that can ha )pen?’’ ‘*Poubalov loves you, Miss Hilman.’’ Clara blushed very faintly, looked straight into 1 eyes for an instant, then off at the house-tops, and ar swered: “T felt it. How did you find out?’’ Amazed and relieved, Paul told her. A ‘*T have made myself a spy,”’ he concluded, “but r that the circumstances justified me.’ “a ‘*So I think, too,’’ rejoined Clara. ‘‘Well, let us go on, don't know at this moment how to act, but 1 cannot he thinking that this will bring matters to a crisis, and hope, in spite of reason and fears, that it will end pily. I wonder where Poubalov got my photogs aa 1 Then she remembered that when the re omick book S cc }