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It was as if, in some roundabout way, all her diffused apprehensions of the previous day, with their moment of sharp concentration about the newspaper article,    as if this dim questioning of the future, and startled return upon the past, had between them liquidated the arrears of some haunting moral obligation. IT WAS AS IF IN SOME ROUNDABOUT WAY ALL HER DIFFUSED FEARS OF THE PREVIOUS DAY WITH THEIR MOMENT OF SHARP CONCENTRATION ABOUT THE NEWSPAPER ARTICLE AS IF THIS DIM QUESTIONING OF THE FUTURE AND STARTLED RETURN UPON THE PAST HAD BETWEEN THEM LIQUIDATED THE ARREARS OF SOME HAUNTING MORAL OBLIGATION
one of my letters." She made no answer, and was aware only, after a short interval of waiting, that he had risen, and strolling across the room, had placed himself on the sofa at her side. She felt him, as he did so, pass an arm about her, she felt his hand seek hers and clasp it, and turning slowly, drawn by the warmth of his cheek, she met the smiling clearness of his eyes. "It's all right -- it's all right?" she questioned, through the flood of her dissolving doubts; and "I give you my word it never was righter!" he laughed back at her, holding her close. III One of the strangest things she was afterward to recall out of all the next day's incredible strangeness was the sudden and complete recovery of her sense of security. It was in the air when she woke in her low-ceilinged, dusky room; it accompanied her down-stairs to the breakfast-table, flashed out at her from the fire, and re-duplicated itself brightly from the flanks of the urn and the sturdy flutings of the Georgian teapot.  THIS IS A LIVER VOX RECORDING ALL LIVERPOX RECORDINGS ARE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO VOLUNTEER PLEASE VISIT LIVERVOX DOT ORG AFTERWARD BY EDITH WHARTON PART TWO READ BY CHARLES BLAKEMORE AFTERWARD CHAPTER THREE ONE OF THE STRANGEST THINGS SHE WAS TO AFTERWARD RECALL OUT OF ALL THE NEXT DAY'S STRANGENESS WAS THE SUDDEN AND COMPLETE RECOVERY OF HER SENSE OF SECURITY IT WAS IN THE AIR WHEN SHE WOKE IN HER LOW SEALED DUSKY ROOM IT WENT WITH HER DOWN STAIRS TO THE BREAKFAST TABLE FLASHED OUT AT HER FROM THE FIRE AND REDUPLICATED ITSELF FROM THE FLANKS OF THE URN AND THE STURDY FLUTINGS OF THE GEORGIAN TEAPOT
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