His Other Wife: A Novel — page 342: what you’re looking at

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334 RACHEL’S TESTIMONY. her image-like features. She closed the burning, staring eyes for a second, and then resumed : ‘‘My next conscious experience was of waking in a strange room, with two persons standing near me—one of these the Indian doctor, Uriel, the other my old mulatto nurse, Amy. I was told afterward by the Indian that I had just waked from a long sleep. I have not a vivid nor systematic recollection of what followed for many months, but I became as familiar with the story of my dreadful fate, as it is given in the written statement of the Indian, as a child with a nursery tale. All that is revealed in the In- -dian’s testimony concerning my purpose to die, or suffer any amount of personal anguish, both for myself and my child, is perfectly true, and no other torture could have wrung confession from me except the one that maddened me into frenzied rage against the traitor, rather than ex- pose my husband's crime, who could ignore both my de- votion and his crime, in linking his life and my fortune to that of the beautiful woman whom he loved even as he had loathed me/” Bitter and violent with dark passions as these words were, they were so calmly spoken that only in the fiery scintillations of the glittering eyes could their venom be detected. | | She then went on to state: how she had discovered the fact of Mathew Croft's second marriage, and how she had hastened to blast its brightness and its. promise by present- ing herself before the newly-wedded pair. She repeated cComicbooks.¢co m