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A HEART’S BITTERNESS. 63 breaking for Keith’s sorrow, sprang up, and, laying her hand on his folded arms sobbed out: ‘“No, no! don’t say it! don’t feel it! Iam not worthy ee ee Forget me, Kenneth—it is all I ask. Let me suffer alone!’ Was that a tear, a man’s hot, ‘bitter tear, that fell on her bare, white arm? | Kenneth turned his back and stood silent, struggling with himself. Violet, like a culprit waiting sentence, stood beside the fountain. Keith turned. ‘*I do not wish to forget you; I do not wish you to suffer; and I am sure I shall learn to look at life as I ought. You can help me best, Violet, by accepting your lot with con- tent; by resolving to be happy; by seeking all the good that is in vour husband, and learning to love him.” ‘* He does not want my love,” moaned Violet. ‘‘I must learn to do without love. I have believed that love was the sweetest, holiest thing; that it was woman’s life, her strengh and stay; and’I must do without it all; and I will! I, too, can be strong. Leave me. Good-by, Kenneth. We will never talk of this again.” Keith felt that he must go. He left her alone. | What would Lord Leigh have thought if he had seen Violet then, and learned the depths of tenderness and sor- row in her soul? Knowledge of her capacity for loving might have roused him to love, and changed all their lives. But he had said his wife was romantic and poetic, and these were surface feelings, while her true nature was passionless as lilies are. : Ignorant of the real depths of her heart, he went blindly on, and day by day he and Violet drifted on a darkening — fate. Oh, what might have been saved them if he had only known her better! CHAPTER XVI. -A DANGER IN THE WAY. Violet, Countess of Leigh, now stood in most perilous pices On the one hand, the indifference of a husband so ittle in sympathy with her; on the other, the revival of her 3 » toe ‘4 a p. ~s o ie § at, /* ti? et i pee FE ee tthe ee OO 8 ne ee Pe a ae eT nt Be SE Le a a 8 o- "es . oa ° Me Ts ae LA Go? ae? * . PY. €346,%e way 0G e f * - > rw, e wie at > } ? es Pan a ae aan Pad 5 he ee TS oe tee, tee < “$e % re 4% toy ee: ee aye =f : ite et - % OF 10% on ie VE, : 4 we aN ABO N S ANY ee > Cay WON SINS VE Ae \ 4. wy re epee 5 . me Se ‘ ‘ al wy 2 A rd " it : — - S-: # ‘ c nla 4 . Sete Sy a “ ; nhs 4 > Ri \ Me 4 ify f* ; : ‘ad —e ty s xe , ae <5 2 er ot At ¢ i} } Fi ~ ey > he , i GComicbooks (eo) nN