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THE MAIDEN
 

so disjointed that the listener, if such there were, must have discovered her suspicion of his presence. She searched the curtains every morning after that, but never found anybody within them. Alec D’Urberville had evidently thought better of his freak to terrify her by an ambush of that kind.

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