The Mission of Poubalov — page 34: what you’re looking at

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30 AN IMPERFECT VISION. ‘Down the stairs she crept and came to the library door. ‘‘Are you money-mad?”’ It was her uncle who spoke. ‘Don’t you know that it hasn’t come, that such a thing can’t be effected in a moment?’’ . ‘‘And I tell you, Mat Pembroke,’’ said a harsh voice, ‘‘that you’ve got——”’ | The voice suddenly stopped, and the speaker, the infirm old man who had arrived late at the church while the wedding party was waiting in the vestibule, half rose from his big chair and pointed with a bony, trembling hand over Mr. Pembroke’s shoulder. Mr. Pembroke turned about and saw Clara Hilman with wide-open eyes and pale face standing just within the doorway. ‘‘Rorgive me, uncle,’’ she said in a voice scarce above a whisper; ‘‘I thought you were speaking of Ivan, and I—I came down to say that 1 am going fo find him.” She swayed slightly as she finished, and Mr. Pembroke ran forward and took her in his arms, Eomichooks.com