Page:The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (emended first edition), Volume 1.djvu/356

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THE TENANT

CHAPTER XIX.


AN INCIDENT.


Twenty-second. Night—What have I done? and what will be the end of it? I cannot calmly reflect upon it; I cannot sleep. I must have recourse to my diary again; I will commit it to paper to-night, and see what I shall think of it to-morrow.

I went down to dinner resolving to be cheerful and well-conducted, and kept my resolution very creditably, considering how my head ached, and how internally wretched I felt—I don't know what is come over me of late; my very