A Struggle for a Ring — page 360: what you’re looking at

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356 A SEPARATION DISCUSSED. band, my love, let the sin be that I kill myself—rather that than the other ten thousand times !” CHAPTER LIII. A SEPARATION DISCUSSED. ‘¢Think again, love,” continued the gentle voice, ‘‘ be- fore you ask me todo this. There are laws which men. cannot break with impunity, and the law that bids a man cherish his wife and be faithful to her, is one of the most solemn.” If this world were the end of all, it would not matter so much, but there is another.” ‘‘T have no wish to do wrong, Ailie,” said Lord Cars- dale, ‘‘as you can see. I am so distressed, so grieved, that I cannot literally tell what to do. On whichever side I look, : see nothing but misery, salir and unending SOITOW.. His voice died away in a low murmur, and for some few minutes there was silence, broken only by the sighing of the wind in the trees, and the rustling of the green leaves. Then Ailie came nearer to him ; her pale, beautiful face glowed in the darkness like a clear star. ‘‘Lord Carsdale,” she said, gently, ‘‘ we have talked of the convenience of the mattter, of its right and wrong; tell me one thing more, and I will be quite content. Which will make you the happier, to be parted from me and live with Lady Ethel all the rest of your life, or to wait until you can say that 1am your wife?’ m GComicbooks.: