A Fair Fraud — page 76: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER V For the first few moments Marion stood motionless in front of the summer - louse behind which she had been in hiding, in an agony of doubt and disturbance. Such was the tumult within her, and the bewilder- ment and confusion of her mind, that she utterly forgot what she had come out to do, and the message which Mrs Drury had bidden her deliver to her son. Oblivious of everything save of the astonish- ing discovery that she had so unwillingly made, she slowly began to retrace her steps up the path towards the house, along which Mrs Lane and her companion had now vanished from her sight; her troubled face was full of perplexity, and her downcast eyes were fixed vacantly upon the frozen ground at her feet. ‘What am I todo? What ought I to do?’ she asked of herself over and over again. ‘Is it my duty to speak of what I have seen and heard ? or had I better hold my tongue, and bury the secret I have discovered in my own heart?’ B GOMMGIOO oO C' Q)