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Figure Two "If
she had lifted her white hand and stabbed him, with that smile
upon her face, it would not have shocked him with more pale dismay
than did those two words as Pauline shook him off and rose up,
beautiful and stern as an avenging angel. Dumb with amazement
too fathomless for words, he knelt there motionless and aghast"
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