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Have you had any tea, by the by?" he asked presently in a renewed voice. ¡¡¡¡ "No--yes--never mind," said Gillingham, preoccupied. "Gone, you say she is?" ¡¡¡¡ "Yes.... I would have died for her; but I wouldn't be cruel to her in the name of the law. She is, as I understand, gone to join her lover. What they are going to do I cannot say. Whatever it may be she has my full consent to." ¡¡¡¡ There was a stability, a ballast, in Phillotson's pronouncement which restrained his friend's comment. "Shall I--leave you?" he asked. ¡¡¡¡ "No, no. It is a mercy to me that you have come. I have some articles to arrange and clear away. Would you help me?
oil painting" ¡¡¡¡ Gillingham assented; and having gone to the upper rooms the schoolmaster opened drawers, and began taking out all Sue's things that she had left behind, and laying them in a large box. "She wouldn't take all I wanted her to," he continued. "But when I made up my mind to her going to live in her own way I did make up my mind." ¡¡¡¡ "Some men would have stopped at an agreement to separate." ¡¡¡¡ "I've gone into all that, and don't wish to argue it. I was, and am, the most old-fashioned man in the world on the question of marriage-- in fact I had never thought critically about its ethics at all. But certain facts stared me in the face, and I couldn't go against them." ¡¡¡¡ They went on with the packing silently. When it was done Phillotson closed the box and turned the key. ¡¡¡¡ "There," he said. "To adorn her her somebody's eyes; never again in mine!" ¡¡¡¡ ¡¡¡¡ V ¡¡¡¡ FOUR-AND-TWENTY hours before this time Sue had written the following note to Jude:
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
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