Her Faithful Knight — page 334: what you’re looking at

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330 Darcy Finds His Wife. But Aylmer was in no mood to take an interest in anything but the case for which he was waiting, and at eleven o'clock, as had been previously announced, it came up for hearing, and in response to the direction, ‘Bring in the prisoner,’ two policemen left the hall, returning one on each side of the fairest woman who had ever stood in that court accused of the foul crime of murder. A murmur ran through the building. People stood up, whispering and jostling each other. The magistrate, a man of keen, intellectual face, settled his pince-nez upon his nose, and gazed long and attentively at the accused woman. His son, a handsome lad of about fifteen, who sat close beside him on the bench, stared at Dorothy with all his eyes, and instantly hoped the “governor” wouldn't be hard on her. Rosa Read burst out crying, and Ayl- mer’s heart thumped as though it would burst his ribs. The woman he loved. stood there, within a few feet of him, paler and thinner than she had appeared less than a year ago, when he had first seen her, but to his eyes lovelier still because more helpless, more appealing, and because, after one frightened look around the court, her gaze sought his, and softened and brightened as she read in his eyes the unwavering love he tried to show there. Under her wide-brimmed black hat Dorothy’s face looked wan and white. The moment was nearing, she knew well, against which she had fought so long, and ‘the future stretched, a gray blank shrouding horrible possibilities, before her. Her head dropped forward as the formal evidence of her arrest was taken, and her pale lips could hardly form the words: “Not guilty!” . The long tension had snapped now, and apathetically she waited for the end she knew must come. A chair was given her in the dock; after two sleepless nights she was thoroughly tired, and very soon her thoughts went COMmicoooks (C@