His Other Wife: A Novel — page 102: what you’re looking at

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04 RACHEL’S COMMANDS. ‘‘That you shall immediately fetch your daughter and mine to this elegant home, as its heiress and mistress; that she be so received and respected by both of you; that she never learn the dreadful story of her mother’s wrongs; and that you make her life one long holiday of pleasure, until one worthier to guide and guard it shall join her heart and hand, together with my fortune, which shall be at once settled on her, in her own right, and uncontrolled by any prohibitions or conditions. ‘©On these terms I will retire into an oblivion profound | as that which has so long infolded my life. Not even my child shall know that I live; but with sleepless ey of love and vengeance will I watch and guard her fate from my hiding-place. ‘*Once I longed for death, and expected it; but now I fee] that I shall live to fulfill this mission to you, and to her future. In the instant that you shall violate a single clause in these conditions, I shall emerge. from the depths of my seclusion, and bring down the doom that I have power to inflict or to withhold. ‘‘T wait your answer.” She had seemed to rise and expand with each utterance of her suppressed passion, until now she stood above them towering and stern as the Angel of Retribution, whose task she had essayed. The glitter of her midnight eye flashed over them, baleful as a red comet’s light, and they cowered and shrank from her, awed by the mystical forces that they felt emanating from that slender, shadowy = Comicbooks.co =|