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Hall Caine
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       _ PART III. MAN AND WOMAN
       CHAPTER XXIV
       Philip had stood at the door of the porch, struggling to command his soul, and employing all his powers to look cheerful and even gay. But as Kate had passed she had looked at him with an imploring look, and then he had seemed to understand everything--that she had made a mistake and that she knew it, that her laughter had been bitterer than tears, that some compulsion had been put upon her, and that she was a wretched and miserable woman. At the next moment she had gone by with an odour of lace and perfume; and then a flood of tenderness, of pity, of mad jealousy had come upon him, and it had been as much as he could do to restrain himself. One instant he held himself in hand, and at the next the wheels of the gig had begun to move, the horse had started, the women had trooped into the house again, and there was nothing before him but the broad back of Caesar, who was looking into the darkness after the vanishing gig-lamps, and breathing asthmatical breath.
       "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife," said Caesar. "You're time enough yet, sir; come in, come in."
       But the man was odious to Philip at that moment, the house was odious, the people and the talk inside were odious, and he slipped away unobserved.
       Too late! From the torment of his own thoughts he could not escape--his lost love, his lost happiness, his memories of the past, his dreams of the future. A voice--it was his own voice--seemed to be taunting him constantly: "You were not worthy of her. You did not know her value. She is gone; and what have you got instead!"
       The Deemstership! That was of no consequence now. A name, an idle name! Love was the only thing worth having, and it was lost. Without it all the rest was nothing, and he had flung it away. He had been a monster, he had been a fool. The thought of his folly was insupportable; the recollection of his selfishness was stifling; the memory of his calculating deliberations was dragging him again in the dust. Thus, with a sense of crushing shame, he plunged down the dark road, trying not to think of the gig that had gone swinging along in front of him.
       He would leave the island. To-morrow he would sail for England. No matter if he lost the chance of promotion. To-morrow, to-morrow! But to-night? How could he live through the hours until morning, with the black thoughts which the darkness generated? How could he sleep? How lie awake? What drug would bring forgetfulness? Kate! Pete! To-night! Oh, God! oh, God! _
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Part 1. Boys Together
   Part 1. Boys Together - Chapter 1
   Part 1. Boys Together - Chapter 2
   Part 1. Boys Together - Chapter 3
   Part 1. Boys Together - Chapter 4
   Part 1. Boys Together - Chapter 5
   Part 1. Boys Together - Chapter 6
   Part 1. Boys Together - Chapter 7
   Part 1. Boys Together - Chapter 8
   Part 1. Boys Together - Chapter 9
   Part 1. Boys Together - Chapter 10
   Part 1. Boys Together - Chapter 11
Part 2. Boy And Girl
   Part 2. Boy And Girl - Chapter 1
   Part 2. Boy And Girl - Chapter 2
   Part 2. Boy And Girl - Chapter 3
   Part 2. Boy And Girl - Chapter 4
   Part 2. Boy And Girl - Chapter 5
   Part 2. Boy And Girl - Chapter 6
   Part 2. Boy And Girl - Chapter 7
   Part 2. Boy And Girl - Chapter 8
   Part 2. Boy And Girl - Chapter 9
   Part 2. Boy And Girl - Chapter 10
   Part 2. Boy And Girl - Chapter 11
   Part 2. Boy And Girl - Chapter 12
   Part 2. Boy And Girl - Chapter 13
   Part 2. Boy And Girl - Chapter 14
   Part 2. Boy And Girl - Chapter 15
   Part 2. Boy And Girl - Chapter 16
   Part 2. Boy And Girl - Chapter 17
   Part 2. Boy And Girl - Chapter 18
   Part 2. Boy And Girl - Chapter 19
   Part 2. Boy And Girl - Chapter 20
   Part 2. Boy And Girl - Chapter 21
   Part 2. Boy And Girl - Chapter 22
   Part 2. Boy And Girl - Chapter 23
   Part 2. Boy And Girl - Chapter 24
Part 3. Man And Woman
   Part 3. Man And Woman - Chapter 1
   Part 3. Man And Woman - Chapter 2
   Part 3. Man And Woman - Chapter 3
   Part 3. Man And Woman - Chapter 4
   Part 3. Man And Woman - Chapter 5
   Part 3. Man And Woman - Chapter 6
   Part 3. Man And Woman - Chapter 7
   Part 3. Man And Woman - Chapter 8
   Part 3. Man And Woman - Chapter 9
   Part 3. Man And Woman - Chapter 10
   Part 3. Man And Woman - Chapter 11
   Part 3. Man And Woman - Chapter 12
   Part 3. Man And Woman - Chapter 13
   Part 3. Man And Woman - Chapter 14
   Part 3. Man And Woman - Chapter 15
   Part 3. Man And Woman - Chapter 16
   Part 3. Man And Woman - Chapter 17
   Part 3. Man And Woman - Chapter 18
   Part 3. Man And Woman - Chapter 19
   Part 3. Man And Woman - Chapter 20
   Part 3. Man And Woman - Chapter 21
   Part 3. Man And Woman - Chapter 22
   Part 3. Man And Woman - Chapter 23
   Part 3. Man And Woman - Chapter 24
   Part 3. Man And Woman - Chapter 25
Part 4. Man And Wife
   Part 4. Man And Wife - Chapter 1
   Part 4. Man And Wife - Chapter 2
   Part 4. Man And Wife - Chapter 3
   Part 4. Man And Wife - Chapter 4
   Part 4. Man And Wife - Chapter 5
   Part 4. Man And Wife - Chapter 6
   Part 4. Man And Wife - Chapter 7
   Part 4. Man And Wife - Chapter 8
   Part 4. Man And Wife - Chapter 9
   Part 4. Man And Wife - Chapter 10
   Part 4. Man And Wife - Chapter 11
   Part 4. Man And Wife - Chapter 12
   Part 4. Man And Wife - Chapter 13
   Part 4. Man And Wife - Chapter 14
   Part 4. Man And Wife - Chapter 15
   Part 4. Man And Wife - Chapter 16
   Part 4. Man And Wife - Chapter 17
   Part 4. Man And Wife - Chapter 18
   Part 4. Man And Wife - Chapter 19
Part 5. Man And Man
   Part 5. Man And Man - Chapter 1
   Part 5. Man And Man - Chapter 2
   Part 5. Man And Man - Chapter 3
   Part 5. Man And Man - Chapter 4
   Part 5. Man And Man - Chapter 5
   Part 5. Man And Man - Chapter 6
   Part 5. Man And Man - Chapter 7
   Part 5. Man And Man - Chapter 8
   Part 5. Man And Man - Chapter 9
   Part 5. Man And Man - Chapter 10
   Part 5. Man And Man - Chapter 11
   Part 5. Man And Man - Chapter 12
   Part 5. Man And Man - Chapter 13
   Part 5. Man And Man - Chapter 14
   Part 5. Man And Man - Chapter 15
   Part 5. Man And Man - Chapter 16
   Part 5. Man And Man - Chapter 17
   Part 5. Man And Man - Chapter 18
   Part 5. Man And Man - Chapter 19
   Part 5. Man And Man - Chapter 20
   Part 5. Man And Man - Chapter 21
   Part 5. Man And Man - Chapter 22
   Part 5. Man And Man - Chapter 23
   Part 5. Man And Man - Chapter 24
Part 6. Man And God
   Part 6. Man And God - Chapter 1
   Part 6. Man And God - Chapter 2
   Part 6. Man And God - Chapter 3
   Part 6. Man And God - Chapter 4
   Part 6. Man And God - Chapter 5
   Part 6. Man And God - Chapter 6
   Part 6. Man And God - Chapter 7
   Part 6. Man And God - Chapter 8
   Part 6. Man And God - Chapter 9
   Part 6. Man And God - Chapter 10
   Part 6. Man And God - Chapter 11
   Part 6. Man And God - Chapter 12
   Part 6. Man And God - Chapter 13
   Part 6. Man And God - Chapter 14
   Part 6. Man And God - Chapter 15
   Part 6. Man And God - Chapter 16
   Part 6. Man And God - Chapter 17
   Part 6. Man And God - Chapter 18
   Part 6. Man And God - Chapter 19
   Part 6. Man And God - Chapter 20
   Part 6. Man And God - Chapter 21
   Part 6. Man And God - Chapter 22
   Part 6. Man And God - Chapter 23