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“Some in Europe, a few down south, none here. ’ The lady shook her head, contriving at the same moment to utter a
breathy little laugh. "But
if it is thy will to take me from him," she continued, as soon as her emotion
permitted her,—"if he must be left an orphan amid strangers, implant, I beseech
thee, a mother's feelings in some other bosom, and raise up a friend, who shall be
to him what I would have been. Instead, God had
sent her Sebastianus, a man who had sold his soul to the
Devil to gain eternal life, or perhaps he was even the
Devil himself. Stanley used his authority, and commanded Ann Veronica to come home, to
which, of course, she said she wouldn’t; and then he warned her not to defy him,
warned her very solemnly, and then commanded her again. She staggered to the fireplace and thrust it into the heart of the dying
flames. Sebastian rose from
the tomb. "
Ruth brushed her eyes with one hand and with the other signed for the spinster to
stop. Nothing that I desire to remember," replied
Sheppard, sternly.
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