His Other Wife: A Novel — page 243: what you’re looking at

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“IN DURANCE VILE.” - 235 spoke the first part of it, he coolly turned upon his heel, meaning to suit his action to his words, and set the cutter on the prescribed course. Scarce had he taken one step forward, when a deadly blow from the captain’s mighty arm felled him senseless to the floor. CHAPTER XXV, ‘‘YN DURANCE VILE.” While fate was dealing thus with poor little Faith Hilary, the terrible distaff was not idle in the fortunes of those with whom her destiny was being strangely and silently interwoven. One head—the noblest and proudest of all whose his- tory pertains to this romance—lay sorely stricken, and all unconscious of the events transpiring around him. Lighter than a new-born infant’s breath beat the sick pulse through Gordon Warren’s once powerful frame, and, looking on him, one might easily mistake the motionless repose of his hueless and sharpened features for the last long sleep. There had been only one change in the state of affairs at Lucerne since the night when its master had been con- ducted from its portals to the common jail of , but this was a mysterious one, | Eomicbooks: (E(0) im a)