A Fair Fraud — page 117: what you’re looking at

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106 A Fair Fraud — should be the beginning of new things for her. She would then turn ‘her back for ever on hypocrisy and deceit. She would become a model wife, and shake off all the evil habits of her past life for good and all. But oddly enough, although she had at first very much wanted to marry Captain Drury, yet, since she had known him better and seen more of him, she had grown more and more feluctant to allow him to propose to her. She saw that he liked and admired her, and she knew that with a very little effort on her part he might be brought to put his preference into words—yet she shrank from the moment of the confession of his affection, and every time he had tried to bring things to an issue she had put him off and evaded the crisis. When her mother had left her Hetty did not goto bed. She sat thinking it all out by the light of her dying fire, and her mind became perfectly distracted between the conflicting emotions within her. On the one hand there was her mother and the very desirable mar- riage by which it was in her power to repay her parent for all the years of struggles she had waged chiefly for her daughter’s sake, and on the other hand there was that sna!l remnant of a conscience, which not all the baseness of her daily life had been able to stifle within her. And there was yet another element in poor GOMMGIOO <S (GO) uu