Some one comes in with a lamp, and places it on a distant table, where its rays cannot distress the dying man.
IN11, He is now speaking with some difficulty, and is looking, not at her, but at the pattern he is drawing on the soft loam at his feet.
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IN11 But to Geoffrey—lest the telling should cause him unhappiness—she had said nothing of her discovery; only when the morning came that saw him depart upon his mission (now so well understood by her), she had kissed him, and told him to "hurry, hurry, hurry back to her," with a little sob between each word. And when he was gone she had breathed an earnest prayer, poor child, that all might yet be well, and then told herself that, no matter what came, she would at least be a faithful, loving wife to him..
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