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Excerpt from The Sealskin Cloak
Promise me not to be away more than a month, darling, will you not He was a tall, fair, well-dressed man who thus spoke to a lady equipped for a journey. They stood close together on the platform of the London Bridge railway on a winter evening. His face was eager, the tone of his voice almost imploring, as he continued, I cannot help thinking, Marguerite, that you might have avoided this wretched journey altogether.
Yes, Hugh, and avoided, as you call it, at the same time, the clearest, the most sacred duty.
As she answered, her husband - for such he was marked almost with pain her resolved air, that tranquil expression of the features which tells the gazer more emphatically than words that there is no hope of change.
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