His Other Wife: A Novel — page 372: what you’re looking at

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364 LEDA’S HOST. For the moment she was humbled and subdued under the sweet weight of this grand heart’s pity. For the mo- ment she strove to be worthy of his respect. ‘‘Not much, right now; but we shall find ways. To resolve must be the first thing.” “Only show me how to urate useful and helpful, and you shall see how I will try.” “Yes. Dry your tears now and go to sleep. We shall see what can be thought of.” She obeyed him meekly, and listened for an hour to his firm, even tread passing and repassing on the starlit porch beyond the windows of her chamber. She lay in feverish excitement on her pillow, wondering how much nearer that night had brought her to her old place in that great heart. But there was nothing that answered her in the quick, steady steps as they came and went. She heard them re- peated in her dreams long after all was silent in the cot- tage, but even in her dreams they revealed nothing. Eomicbooks.co