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CONSCIENCE
By HECTOR MALOT
BOOK 3.
CHAPTER XXIV
HEDGING
As he did not reply to this cry of triumph, she looked at him in surprise. saw his face, pale, agitated, under the shock evidently of a violent emotion that she could not explain to herself.
"What is the matter?" she asked, with uneasiness.
"Nothing," he answered, almost brutally.