His Other Wife: A Novel — page 103: what you’re looking at

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RACHEL’S COMMANDS. 95 figure, from which all the grossness and mortality had been worn by long suffering. What she had said. they felt she was fully prepared and competent to perform, and that no human power could turn her from her resolve. From first to last, Leda had felt an invincible conviction of the truth of Rachel’s ghastly story; and the aversion which had been increasing toward her husband every hour since that in which she gave him her hand in betrothal, now assumed a violence of loathing and detestation, mingled with fear, that grew out upon her face so vividly as to leave Rachel no appre- hensions on the score of the future relations between this couple, that she thus chained together by a refinement. of cruelty, and whom she would drive before her will to the execution of her designs as a plowman drives his yoked cattle. | No response to her demand came from their dumb lips; ~ they were too spelled by terror to speak. The hush was broken by the sound of a man’s tread upon the gravel walk. Simultaneously they turned to look upon the new- comer. : A Jow moan of anguish and despair burst from Leda’s lips, for there before her on the threshold stood Gordon Warren | : Eomicbooks: (E(e) =|