His Other Wife: A Novel — page 99: what you’re looking at

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/ RACHEL’S COMMANDS. QI There is no horrid fiend in Hades more rapacious than an injured and insulted wife’s jealousy toward a beautiful woman who, ignorantly or otherwise, fills the place from which she has been cast forth in loathing. | Never before had poor Rachel been so keenly and terribly aware of her unloveliness and deficiency in all feminine charms as now, when her frenzied thought pic- tured a ravishing woman securing the passionate love of that man, whose coldest caress had made earth a heaven for her craving heart. Chaos usurped the empire where patient love and loyal devotion so long had reigned. All that was left in her of life or feeling concentrated in the fell resolve to blight and blast the future of those two, whose lives her slavish Con- stancy had joined. Hours after, when Faith returned, late in the evening, from a ramble along the shore, she found her mother gone. Old Maum Amy, now almost sunk in decrepitude, informed the girl that her mother had been obliged to go away for two or three days, but desired that Faith should remain tranquil with her faithful nurse until she returned. Thus it came to pass that Rachel Croft had appeared, like a spirit of evil omen, to the newly-wedded pair, in the manner we have already seen. Standing before them in the grim, calm potency of her baleful mission to them, she had related substantially what is here recorded. EComicbooks: (E(e) 3