A Struggle for a Ring — page 389: what you’re looking at

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“] WILL SUFFER FOR HIM” 38 think what evil they would of her, or—shé must betray him. She could never betray him! ‘‘Oh, my love,-my love!” cried the poor girl, ‘‘you have cost me dear.” : She could not betray him. They must brand her as all that was most infamous and vile; they must turn her from the doors, if they would; they.must heap insults on her. She would still be true to him. ‘‘Patient Griselda would never have betrayed her hus- band,” she said. ‘‘I will never betray mine. I love him well enough to die for him. I love him well enough to give him up for his own happiness to another. Surely, I may suffer for him.” Yes, she would suffer for him. True, they would take from her her fair fame, and every good woman cling to that. Well, it would be the last sacrifice she ha to make for him, the last proof she could give him of he superabundant love, She would bear it all in silence, a not even by a look would she betray him. ‘¢T can suffer,” she said to herself. ‘‘I have learned | to suffer.” Then she heard Lady Gertrude’s footsteps, and she nerved herself to meet her fate, | ‘‘Lady Waldrove will see you now,” said Lady Ger- trude. And then the earl’s proud daughter half relented as she Icoked at the beautiful white face; in some vague way it did not seem like the face of a guilty woman, it was sO. fair, so.pure, so clear. She stood quite still and looked at her. —— have made against you?” -**No, Lady Gertrude, I do not,” was the low reply. — ‘‘Miss Derwent,” she said, ‘‘do you deny the charge I cS Cece) Gomicboo :