His Other Wife: A Novel — page 281: what you’re looking at

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THE WOLF AND HIS PREY. 273 She then made a brief statement of the facts which had. led to her accident, and mentioned her real position, and the name of her guardian to the captain. ‘“Who, then, is this other that you ‘love a thousand times more’ than Vernois?” ‘Mr. Warren; he is grand!” ‘*Ts he married ?” ‘Oh, dear, no!” ‘Then I suppose he is in love with you?” ‘*Good gracious, no! He treats me just as he would his little sister, if he had one; and if I had forty brothers, I’d never be so fond of them all put together as I am of him.” Fe 7 ‘*No?” Valasco was smiling in a pleased way, for the artless candor of Faith’s enthusiastic praise assured him that she, at least, was not ‘‘in love” with Mr. Warren. ‘Ts there any one in the world for whom you care more than for him?” ‘“Ves; my mother, of course.” ‘‘ Where is your mother?” ‘¢At the German baths—I do not know which of them.” | mae ‘Who else is there, after your mother and this grand friend of yours, whom you love very much indeed?” ‘‘Only two other people in the whole world—my old nurse and Miss Draper, my sweet, kind little governess. ‘How I wish I could see her now!” Eomicbooks: (€(@) m mane")