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Robert not to come home with her; she would get into the carriage alone; she preferred that. This was imperious, and she thought he looked disappointed. While she stood before the door with him—the carriage was turning in the gravel-walk—this thought restored her serenity.
When she had given him her hand in farewell she looked at him a moment. "I have almost decided to despatch that paper," she said.
He knew that she alluded to the document that she had called her renunciation; and he assisted her in to the carriage without saying anything. But just before
