m � � � � � � � � m m � i ii � � � i� husband fixed upon me hemmed me round with himself me in with his own hands and of his own act repeated hundreds of times and thus � forced by the two from every point of rest i had � forced by the two to yield up the last retreat of love and gentleness within me or to be a new misfortune on its innocent driven from each to each and beset by one when i escaped the other � my anger rose almost to distraction against both i do not know against which it rose higher � the master or the man he watched her closely as she stood before him in the very triumph of her indignant beauty she was resolute he saw with no more fear of him than of a worm what should i say of honor or of to you she went on what meaning would it have to you what meaning would it have from me but if i tell you that the touch of your hand makes my blood cold with that from the hour when i first saw and hated you to now when my instinctive is by every minute s knowledge of you i have since had you have been a creature to me which has not its like on earth how then he answered with a faint laugh aye how then my queen on that night when by the scene you had assisted at you dared come to my room and speak to me she said what passed v he shrugged his shoulders and laughed again what passed she said your memory is so distinct he returned that i have no doubt you can recall it i can she said hear it proposing then this flight � not this flight but the flight you thought it � you told me that in the having given you that meeting and leaving you to be discovered there if you so thought fit and in the having suffered you to be alone with me many times before � and having made the opportunities you said � and in the having openly to you that i had no feeling for my husband but aversion and no care r i was lost i had given you the power to and son my name and i lived in virtuous reputation at the sure of your breath all in love � he interrupted smiling the old � on that night said and then the struggle that i long had had with something that was not respect for my good that was i know not what � perhaps the clinging to that last retreat � was ended on that night and then i turned from everything but passion and resentment i struck a blow that laid your lofty master in the dust and set you there before me looking at me now and knowing what i mean he sprang up from his chair with a great oath she put her hand into her bosom and not a finger trembled not a hair upon her head was stirred he stood still she too the and chair between them when i forget that this man put his lips to mine that night and held me in his arms as he has done again to night said pointing at him when i forget the taint of his kiss upon my cheek � the cheek that would have laid her face against � when i forget my meeting with her while that taint was hot upon me and in what a flood the knowledge rushed upon me when i saw her that in her from the persecution i had caused her by my love i brought a shame and degradation on her name through mine and in all time to come should be the solitary figure representing in her mind her first of a guilty creature � then husband from whom i stand henceforth i will forget these last two years and undo what i have done and you i her flashing eyes uplifted for a moment lighted again on and she held some letters out in her left hand see these she said contemptuously you have addressed these to me in the false name you go by one here some elsewhere on my road the are unbroken take them back she them in her hand and tossed them to his feet and as she looked upon him now a smile was on her face we meet and part to night she said you have on days and rest too soon you might have and son and and played your traitor s part a longer and grown richer you purchase your retirement dear he retorted menacing her with his hand sit down have done with this what devil possesses you v their name is she replied her proud form as if she would have crushed him you and your master have raised them in a fruitful house and they shall tear you false to him false to his innocent child false every way and everywhere go forth and boast of me and your teeth for once to know that you are l ring he stood before her muttering and menacing and round as if for something that would help him to conquer her but with the same spirit she opposed him without in every you make she said i have my triumph i single out in you the meanest man i know the and tool of the proud tyrant that his wound may go the deeper and may more boast and revenge me on him you know how you came here to night you know how you stand there you see yourself in colors quite as if not as odious as those in which i see you boast then and revenge me on yourself the 