His Other Wife: A Novel — page 17: what you’re looking at

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HIS OTHER WIFE. CHAPTER I. SLEEPING BEAUTY, ‘*Lucerne to be sold! How dreadful!” ‘‘Dreadful? Humph! I really can’t see why that is more deplorable than any other occurrence.” ‘*Ts there nothing shocking to your sense of humanity, Mr. Croft, in the fact that two women, nobly born and tenderly reared, are to be expelled by the law from the grand ancestral estates that have sheltered their fathers for over a century, and they left houseless and penniless in a country like this?” ‘‘My dear Warren, when you've lived as long as I have, youll spend less Quixotic sympathy on cold, haughty patricians like Mrs. Morgan and her imperial daughter.” As he uttered the last sentence, Mathew Croft, the leading attorney of , Fla., by a caustic curl of his grizzly mustache showed a very ugly set of teeth, that gave to his wide mouth the look of a ferocious beast with tusks, The deep-set, steel-colored eyes that glittered under shaggy arches of a. hue to match his beard, wore an expression Eomicbooks (E€(0)