Her Faithful Knight — page 305: what you’re looking at

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The Uses of Advertisement. 301 teeth lavishly displayed in a mocking grin, as he had ap- peared for the last fifteen years. “Well, Darcy, you ought to be perfectly happy,” he began, seating himself on the foot of the bed. “Now that your complicated love affairs have led you into a murder case, you will be talked about more than any man in Lon- don for at least a week, which I take to be your idea of happiness.” , “Don’t chaff, Jack. It’s an awful business. I can’t tell you what I have suffered.” “TI should think so! Losing ten thousand a year is enough to make any man suffer.” “Do you suppose I was talking of the miserable money? I shall get that right enough, for my poor darling died intestate, and that will is a clear forgery. But it is her loss, Jack, that I feel. That can never be replaced!” “Well, considering that in your six months of married life with her you spent together exactly one-half hour, during the course of which she contrived to chuck you out of a train, your grief really does you great credit!” “You cannot understand. Dorothy loved me intensely in her own way. But her jealousy, when she was led to suppose that I had paid attention to her sister, was such that for the time she became a very fury, and would will- ingly have killed either me or herself.” “Krom what I have heard, she had some excuse for her jealousy.” | “None whatever. Her sister was nothing tome. The poor, distracted girl had loved me, certainly; but it was slely on account of her likeness to Dorothy that I ever took any notice of her.” Wyverley’s grin broadened. He drew a newspaper frcm his pocket, and proceeded to lay it on the bed and smcoth its folds with much elaboration. _—. _ Gomichbooks (E) im