His Other Wife: A Novel — page 64: what you’re looking at

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56 AMY’S DISCOVERIES, CHAPTER V.. AMY'S DISCOVERIES. ‘¢T had fallen asleep beside her, and was waked up by hearing her gasp hoarsely, as if trying to call. By the time I could rise and lift her in my arms she was dead !” This was the statement which the bereaved husband made, shaken with sobs, when the landlady and her daughters rushed into the chamber where Rachel lay with strangely composed features for one who had only a few moments previously passed through the death-struggle. She might have been dead for days, so utterly at rest were all the lines of her face; indeed, one could easily have mistaken that breathless quiet for the rest of deep s]umber. As they all stood round the pale sleeper, exchanging those mysterious whispers and lugubrious. glances proper to such melancholy occasions, the sound of hobbling feet in heavy shoes was heard rapidly nearing the room. It was old Amy, who rushed headlong to the foot of - the bed, where she fell on her knees with a prolonged howl. UGEES & SRBNS, aes | acy ‘‘My poor chile! my poor chile! Lord in Hebben! What zs dis niggar to do?” No one present construed aright the frantic ejaculations GComicbooks: (E(@) =|