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1. THE FIFTH OF JANUARY. BEFORE DAWN
1. THE FIFTH OF JANUARY. BEFORE DAWNWe pass over the intervening weeks. The time of the story is thus advanced more than a quarter of a year. On the midnight preceding the morning which would make her the wife of a man whose presence fascinated her into involuntariness of bearing, and whom in absence she almost dreaded, Cytherea lay in her little bed, vainly endeavouring to sleep. She had been looking back amid the years of her short though varied past, and thinking of the threshold upon which she stood. Days and months had dimmed the form of Edward Springrove like the gauzes of a vanishing stage-scene, but his dying voice could still be heard faintly behind. That a soft small chord in her still vibrated true to his memory, she would not admit: that she did not approach Manston
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