‘Your master in?’ he demanded of the astonished footman, removing his
cockaded hat and handing it over. "You will not make it valueless in my eyes," he added, catching her in
his arms, and pressing her to his breast. "
"But, my love," still remonstrated Wood, "you know I'm going to look after the
boys——"
"After Mrs. Her finger-nails dug into her flesh. "
"No," cried the lady, "this room—I recollect—it has a back window. In the grate were some charred fragments of
a marriage certificate. She slipped past the servants, her soft
roe-skin shoes unheard on the old stone. Creeping along quickly on his hands and
knees, he found the entrance to a covered drain, into which he crept. But, alas!
she was beautiful—and beauty is a crime not to be forgiven by a jealous woman. ‘But this is altogether a chance of the luckiest. I came
in by the vestry, and we will go out that way again. Had he been sick in the mind when he had done this damnable thing? It did not
seem possible, for he could recall clearly all he had said and done; there were no
blank spaces to give him one straw of excuse. ‘I have
said that I will tell you nothing of this soi-disant Valade. She had maintained
a B in each subject except History, which she occasionally
felt compelled to strive for A’s in, considering she had
lived through most of it.
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