His Other Wife: A Novel — page 297: what you’re looking at

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FAITH’S DELIVERANCE, 289 deck of the Madcap, and, when Faith put out her hand to bid him adieu, he stepped back, folded his terrible arms over his breast, shook his head in sign of refusal to let her touch him, and made a salaam before her as slaves do before the sovereigns of the East. Re ae atom *. * The good ship Queen Guinevere was bound, with a full list of passengers and valuable cargo, for the South Ameri- can coast, and would touch at Georgetown, in the British dominion of Guiana. The captain of the steamer commended Miss Hilary with great kindness to the good offices of an English family among his passengers, Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey, with their two daughters, one of whom was near Faith’s age and size, became at once deeply interested in the fortunes of the lone and beautiful young creature whose misfortunes had cast her upon their sympathies, and whose personal attributes of manner and character so soon won for her the affectionate esteem of every one with whom she came in contact. Miss Godfrey pressed upon Faith the use of her ward- robe, and the two girls soon became as intimate and as devoted as sisters. Before the steamer reached her port it seemed to Faith that these new friends had made an atmosphere of home about her sad heart. Nevertheless her thoughts turned anxiously to Lucerne, and she entreated Mr. Godfrey to take the most immediate GEomichoo <Si: (E(@)