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My lady crushed the letter fiercely in her hand, and flung it from her into the flames.
"If he stood before me now, and I could kill him," she muttered in a strange, inward whisper, "I would do it -- I would do it! " She snatched up the lamp and rushed into the adjoining room. She shut the door behind her. She could not endure any witness of her horrible despair -- she could endure nothing, neither herself nor her surroundings.