A Struggle for a Ring — page 41: what you’re looking at

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. — been, aR Var, «4 a a - . > eae we =," SAVING A WOMAN’S HONOR. 37 CHAPTER V. SAVING A WOMAN'S HONOR. ‘‘We must go straight to London; that is the only place where we can be married. ‘They make such a fuss about marriages in these country places; in London they take things more quietly. A few thousand marriages there, more or less, makes no difference. Alice, can you walk to Laylsden Junction? It is only four miles from here; there we can take the express to London. Iam sorry that you should be so tired and fatigued; there is no way of getting a carriage for you.” ‘“‘T can walk,” she replied, quickly. ‘Then say good-by to the doctor's house; it will bea long time before you see it again,” said Lord Carsdale. Alice looked up at it with tearful eyes. ‘*T owe him so much,” ali murmured; ‘‘ but he was always so cross, and so severe.’ “No one shall ever be cross to you again, my beautiful Alice,” said the young lord. ‘‘ You have drank the lees of life, now you shall taste its wine.” In her strange after-life, with its joys, its passions, its pains, she never lost the memory of that walk. The night was so still; so sweet, so fragrant; there was no sound, save the murmur of the wind as it lightly stirred the great, swaying boughs, save their own footsteps on the soft,’ springing turf, save their own voices, low and musical; the lovely starlight was so dim and fragrant; the hedges were all one pink mass of white roses, with great sprays (Eo) comicboo c=) AIH