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Chapter XLIII

           WhenStricklandsuggestedthatinhersurrendertohimtherewasasenseoftriumphoverDirkStroeve,becausehehadcometoherhelpinherextremity,heopenedthedoortomanyadarkconjecture.Ihopeitwasnottrue.Itseemstomeratherhorrible.Butwhocanfathomthesubtletiesofthehumanheart?Certainlynotthosewhoexpectfromitonlydecoroussentimentsandnormalemotions.WhenBlanchesawthat,notwithstandinghismomentsofpassion,Stricklandremainedaloof,shemusthavebeenfilledwithdismay,andeveninthosemomentsIsurmisethatsherealisedthattohimshewasnotanindividual,butaninstrumentofpleasure;hewasastrangerstill,andshetriedtobindhimtoherselfwithpatheticarts.Shestrovetoensnarehimwithcomfortandwouldnotseethatcomfortmeantnothingtohim.Shewasatpainstogethimthethingstoeatthatheliked,andwouldnotseethathewasindifferenttofood.Shewasafraidtoleavehimalone.Shepursuedhimwithattentions,andwhenhispassionwasdormantsoughttoexciteit,forthenatleastshehadtheillusionofholdinghim.Perhapssheknewwithherintelligencethatthechainssheforgedonlyarousedhisinstinctofdestruction,astheplate-glasswindowmakesyourfingersitchforhalfabrick;butherheart,incapableofreason,madehercontinueonacoursesheknewwasfatal.Shemusthavebeenveryunhappy.Buttheblindnessofloveledhertobelievewhatshewantedtobetrue,andherlovewassogreatthatitseemedimpossibletoherthatitshouldnotinreturnawakeanequallove.

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