Portrait of a Lady • Paragraph 1301
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He might be pardoned if for an instant this exclamation seemed to him to sound the infernal note, and it is not on record that her motive for discharging such a shaft had been of the clearest. He oughtn’t to stride about lean and hungry, however--she certainly felt _that_ for him. “God forgive you!” he murmured between his teeth as he turned away.