His Other Wife: A Novel — page 213: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

THE MADCAP TAKES A PRIZE. 205 and have pity on me, for I cannot live near your presence and of utter the deep ecstatic love that fills my whole being if I but see you, or hear your voice!” Her tone was almost stern, as she replied : “Tf it were true that you love me, ‘you would have died rather than hurt me by those words. Let me make my- self understood, now and for all time. Whatever might have been, had you asked my hand under the sanction of honor, and the protection of my social surroundings, rest assured you have forever forfeited your right to my confi- dence by the unfair advantage you have taken of our mutually unhappy situation. It was mof necessary that you should so misrepresent my position in speaking of me to those strange men, and it never shall be necessary that I shall occupy it.” | With these hot words vibrating lowly on the moon-lit air, and her fair face glowing with indignant pride and resolute heroism, Faith Hilary turned away from her com- panion and passed swiftly to her state-room. After that night she refused to be alone for one moment with Vernois, and, whenever forced to be left with him, she either retreated to the close discomfort of her state-room, or manifested such aversion as obliged him to leave her presence. sth) : But Vernois felt that he held in his hand the winning card, and, if all things else failed him, he would surely play it. A dead-calm succeeded the hurricane that had swept the EComicbooks: (E(0)