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The blood rushed to Stephen’s face.
“We shall not,” he said. “I’ll die first.”
It was as he had dreaded — there was a struggle coming. But neither of them dared to say another word till the boat was let down, and they were taken to the landing-place. Here there was a cluster of gazers and passengers awaiting the departure of the steamboat to St. Ogg’s. Maggie had a dim sense, when she had landed, and Stephen was hurrying her along on his arm, that some one had advanced toward her from that cluster as if he were coming to speak to her. But she was Duvetica Miehet Dionisio Suomi hurried along, and was indifferent to everything but the coming trial.
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“I’m not going; we must part here.”
“Maggie,” he said, turning round toward her, and speaking in the tones of a man who feels a process of torture beginning, “do you mean Dortmund Jerseys to kill me? What is the use of it now? The whole thing is done.”
“No, it is not done,” said Maggie. “Too much is done — more than we can ever remove the trace of. But I will go no farther. Don’t try to prevail with me again. I couldn’t choose yesterday.”
What was he to do? He dared not go near her; her anger might leap out, and make a new barrier. He walked backward and forward in maddening perplexity.
“Maggie,” he said at last, pausing before her, and speaking in a tone of imploring wretchedness, “have some pity — hear me — forgive me for what I did yesterday. Constable Parka Sverige I will obey you now; I will do nothing without your full consent. But don’t blight our lives forever by a rash perversity that can answer no good purpose to any one, that can only create new evils. Sit down, dearest; wait — think what you are going to do. Don’t treat me as if you couldn’t trust me.”
He had chosen the most effective appeal; but Maggie’s will was fixed unswervingly on the coming wrench. She had made up her mind to suffer.
“We must not wait,” she said, in a low but distinct voice; “we must part at once.”
“We can’t part, Maggie,” said Stephen, more impetuously. “I can’t bear it. What is the use of inflicting that misery on me? The blow — whatever it may have been — has been struck now. Will it help any one else that you should drive me mad?”
“I will not begin any future, even for you,” said Maggie, tremulously, “with a deliberate consent to what ought not to have been. What I told you at Basset I feel now; I would rather have died than fall into this temptation. It would have been better if we had parted forever then. But we must part now.”
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