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Mr. Thorpe, being a man accustomed all his life to success in everything he undertook -- except in the case of Annie, but even she had been a success at first -- had spent a week of bitterness.
He was aggrieved, deeply aggrieved; and he hated the hole and corner way Mrs. Luke had hidden from him, refusing to see him, refusing any sort of explanation, turning him down with a single letter, and not answering when he wrote back.