THE HOUSE DIVIDED
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Only, in the end, he was able to shatter her calm by a remark so uttered as to seem an inadvertent avowal that he had already brought about the assassination of her lover. Even that failed of its purpose, for her taciturnity yielded only to hysteria; and realizing that he wasted breath. Trine summoned two of his creatures and had her led weeping from the room to be held prisoner in her bedchamber on the topmost floor of the house.
