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SHE had need of me again. She had claimed me again. I felt all the old love, all the old devotion owning her power once more. Whatever had mortified or angered me at our last interview was forgiven an...
《The Two Destinies》Chapter 24 - In The Shadow Of St. Paul's
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2008/7/5
In ten days I was at home again--and my mother's arms were round me.
I had left her for my sea-voyage very unwillingly--seeing that she was in delicate health. On my return, I was grieved to obser...
《The Two Destinies》Chapter 25 - I Keep My Appointment
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2008/7/5
THE poverty-stricken aspect of the street when we entered it, the dirty and dilapidated condition of the house when we drew up at the door, would have warned most men, in my position, to prepare thems...
《The Two Destinies》Chapter 26 - Conversation With My Mother
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2008/7/5
I REACHED my own house in time to snatch two or three hours of repose, before I paid my customary morning visit to my mother in her own room. I observed, in her reception of me on this occasion, certa...
《The Two Destinies》Chapter 27 - Conversation With Mrs. Van Brandt
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2008/7/5
THE landlady was taking the air at her own door when I reached the house. Her reply to my inquiries justified my most hopeful anticipations. The poor lodger looked already "like another woman"; and th...
《The Two Destinies》Chapter 28 - Love And Money
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2008/7/5
FEELING the embarrassment of the moment most painfully on her side, Mrs. Van Brandt spoke first.
"You have said nothing to me about yourself," she began. "Is your life a happier one than it was wh...
《The Two Destinies》Chapter 29 - Our Destinies Part Us
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2008/7/5
DESCENDING to the ground-floor of the house, I sent to request a moment's interview with the landlady. I had yet to learn in which of the London prisons Van Brandt was confined; and she was the only p...
《The Two Destinies》Chapter 3 - Swedenborg And The Sibyl
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2008/7/5
MY narrative may move on again from the point at which it paused in the first chapter.
Mary and I (as you may remember) had left the bailiff alone at the decoy, and had set forth on our way togeth...
《The Two Destinies》Chapter 30 - The Prospect Darkens
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2008/7/5
THREE days after my mother and I had established ourselves at Torquay, I received Mrs. Van Brandt's answer to my letter. After the opening sentences (informing me that Van Brandt had been set at liber...
《The Two Destinies》Chapter 31 - The Physician's Opinion
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2008/7/5
SIX months have elapsed. Summer-time has come again.
The last parting is over. Prolonged by my care, the days of my mother's life have come to their end. She has died in my arms: her last words ha...
《The Two Destinies》Chapter 32 - A Last Look At Greenwater Broad
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2008/7/5
MY spirits rose as I walked through the bright empty streets, and breathed the fresh morning air.
Taking my way eastward through the great city, I stopped at the first office that I passed, and se...
《The Two Destinies》Chapter 33 - A Vision Of The Night
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2008/7/5
RETURNING to the cottage parlor, I took a chair by the window and opened my pocket-book at a blank page. I had certain directions to give to my representatives, which might spare them some trouble and...
《The Two Destinies》Chapter 34 - By Land And Sea
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2008/7/5
IT mattered little to me to what port the vessel was bound. Go where I might, I knew that I was on my way to Mrs. Van Brandt. She had need of me again; she had claimed me again. Where the visionary ha...
《The Two Destinies》Chapter 35 - Under The Window
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2008/7/5
I SET the position of the harbor by my pocket-compass, and then followed the course of the first street that lay before me.
On either side, as I advanced, the desolate old houses frowned on me. Th...
《The Two Destinies》Chapter 36 - Love And Pride
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2008/7/5
A CRY of terror from the room told me that I had been heard. For a moment more nothing happened. Then the child's voice reached me, wild and shrill: "Open the shutters, mamma! I said he was coming--I ...