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He gave a short hard laugh and looked at her knowingly.
`` You'd be the one to say '', he observed, and she found herself liking his approval none too well, but she could not defend herself and say that her actions were `` different '', since all actions had their own laws.
Only, this old man's connivance was even less to her taste than Selma Cotter's open censure.
Well, she had not come back to Great Island to be understood, praised or condemned.
She had come to make her peace with the past, and of that past this ancient of the earth was only a kind of shadow.
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