His Other Wife: A Novel — page 392: what you’re looking at

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384 A MEETING. ‘Then had they best wear the shield that protects you, madam. Excuse me if I decline to listen further to your most unworthy remarks.” He had already gathered up the letters, and now viride from Leda’s presence, trembling in every nerve. There was only one feeling alive in his breast—the wild, aching desire to clasp and shield the fair white creature, whom tongues like that woman’s would seek to sting to death with their venom. The next day Leda learned, through Roxana, that Gor- don Warren had left the city. She needed no oracle to tell her whither his steps were bound. | CHAPTER XLIII. A MEETING, ‘*A young gentleman to see Miss Hilary, mum,” an- nounced a tidy English housemaid, who entered a charm- ing sitting-room on the upper floor of Mr. Theodore God- frey’s delightful home on the South American coast. An elderly lady and three young girls were talking and . sewing together when thus interrupted. ‘‘Who can be wanting to see Miss Hilary?” said Faith, stopping short in the midst of a merry laugh, provoked by Leila Godfrey’s wit. Eomicbooks: (E(o)