The Illegal Marriage — page 46: what you’re looking at

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38 THE ILLEGAL MARRIAGE, see it all—he loves another, and is afraid that I shall love him.” Great tears were trickling down her cheeks, and her heart was throbbing painfully. as she thought that it was some lady, more beautiful than she, whom he had met abroad. “IT was but a child when he went away; but I had feelings even then,” she said, almost savagely. “He may not have known it, but——” Her thoughts wandered back to that happy past, and for some moments she thought over the simple story of her life. “Have I no pride?’ she exclaimed, presently, springing to her feet; but in an instant she sank back upon the couch, and burying her face in her hands, gave way to her tears. comicbooks.c