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And she did not know whether that were praise or a sneer . That had been a week before . And all that week he had passed in an increasing agony at the thought that those mountains , that sea , and those sunlit plains would be between him and Maisie Maidan . That thought shook him in the burning nights : the sweat poured from him and he trembled with cold , in the burning noons -- at that thought . He had no minute 's rest ; his bowels turned round and round within him : his tongue was perpetually dry and it seemed to him that the breath between his teeth was like air from a pest-house . He gave no thought to Leonora at all ; he had sent in his papers . They were to leave in a month .