His Other Wife: A Novel — page 93: what you’re looking at

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RACHEL’S COMMANDS... 85 changed not—her wifely allegiance to her husband—her womanly devotion to his safety rather than to her own happiness, Under a changed name, she lived in the house of the Indian quack. He told the neighbors a very plausible story of his widowed niece having come to him, poor and foot-sore, from a long journey, one night, from a distant State—that he had given her a home with him, and would keep her as long as she would stay. Nothing ever happened to create the least mistrust of Uriel’s story; and so changed and aged was Rachel, that Mathew Croft himself would not have known her. By all kinds of management, Rachel continued to follow her husband’s career. Never did she lose sight of him or many weeks together, for Uriel’s untiring exertions to feed her poor, lonely soul with this the only food it could take, obtained through newspapers and secret correspond- ence, the accounts of Croft’s changes of residence. Not more than five years elapsed before she found out that he had established himself in the practice of law at , Florida, and from that period she received very regular accounts of his increasing reputation at the bar. No rumors of his former ministerial profession followed him, and never a breath of any attentions of his to women reached the straining, watchful heart of the poor, loving wife, who felt that the one blow she could not bear would be the knowledge that some other woman had filled the- place she had so awfully vacated in his life, (E(@) =| 2: | : comicbooks: