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The blood rushed to Stephen’s face.
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What was he to do? He dared not go near her; her anger might leap out, and make a new barrier. He walked backward and forward in maddening perplexity.
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“I will not begin any future, even for you,” said Maggie, tremulously, “with a deliberate consent to what ought not to have been. What I told you at Basset I feel now; I Tony Esposito Tröjor would rather have died than fall into this temptation. It would have been better if we had parted forever then. But we must part now.”
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