I Forbid the Banns! — page 320: what you’re looking at

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310 “7 FORBID THE BANNS!” a memory of the happiness of that voyage in the Carnar- von Castle, and perhaps she felt that those days were hap- pier than any she had experienced since she had come to London. “And I,” said Charlie; “if you feel like that what must my feelings be? He will never love you as I have loved you. Look how he has gone off with—why, it’s that Miss Travers; he is taking her to where the tea and sherbet are laid out.” Julian had drifted away, greeting several persons whom he had been in the habit of meeting night after night— companion ships in the whirlpool of society—and finding himself by the side of Marian Travers had offered to pilot her to the tea room. Bertha watched them glide away in the midst of a crowd, and it occurred to her that Julian’s face had become much brighter since he had met Marian than it had been during any part of the day. She also noticed the smile with which Marian Travers had greeted him, and the way she was even now looking up to his face. All at once there came to her for the first time the curious thought : “He is bound to me by notie. If he chose to walk with her out of the door I could not compel him to return to me.” It came to her ina moment, and its sting reached her heart. | “Why, where is all your fun gone?” cried Charlie. “Alas, that marriage should produce such a change! Why, don’t you remember how no day passed without something to keep us merry as sand boys?” ‘“‘T suppose we were very merry,” said she. “It seems so long ago.” “Great Heavens! You say that quite sadly,” cried Charlie. “ That’s the way you all get as soon as you GCOmIiGbooksseo