His Other Wife: A Novel — page 177: what you’re looking at

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AN ECLAIRCISSEMENT, . 169. CHAPTER XVII. AN ECLAIRCISSEMENT. Long after Gordon Warren’s departure Leda. remained in strange bewilderment of thought and feeling. Her emotions resembled those of some cunning artisan, who beholds a rare and curious fabric that he has constructed with infinite toil and pains suddenly crumble to the foun- dation stone in irremediable ruins. | _ Her thoughts traveled despairingly over the incidents of the past weeks, during which she had repeated almost daily her visits to Mrs. Warren’s cottage. The glamour of the old days seemed to have gathered about the long, bright mornings that on one pretext and another she managed to spend in the little library, most frequently in company with both mother and son; but occasionally the good dame would become so engrossed in household avocations. as to leave Gordon the unaided task of entertaining their beautiful guest. By turns they read to each other pas- sages from favorite books, and not unfrequently bent to-. gether over the same page, forgetting quite the sad old tale of Rimini. Only two days before that of the memorable picnic at the fort, Leda had fancied she felt a returning sense of the EComichoo <Si: (€(@) =}