Thrice Wedded, but Only Once a Wife — page 25: what you’re looking at

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Sign ion SS ARE Ba Syaihe = 16 | - THRICE WEDDED, sant F eeod -by, thanking him for his kindness to them; took their seats, and drove merrily away. — Squire Moulton watched them until they disappeared from view; then, raising one clenched hand, he shook it threatingly, and hissed thr ough his shut teeth: ““Go, you young fools! and my worst curses go. with you. He then went within, slamming the door violently after him. <As he did so, Hire men arose from behind some bushes and shrubs which grew beside the arbor where the | _ strange marriage had taken place, and stealthily made their — aS way out of the grounds, heel bey as they went. >) : CHAPTER IL. : . “YoU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE DONE!” oo All unmindful of the withering curses invoked upon their - devoted heads, the young and newly-wedded pair went on ee their homeward way, as happy and light-hearted as they Be had come, little dreaming of the reception that awaited the eae announcement of their mad freak—little dreaming of the. ee sudden and cruel separation in store for them—that the oe bright day so happily begun, and well-nigh spent, was to -. close, as it were, in a night of black despair, and long, long years of weary sorrow and heart-pangs intervene ere joy and reunion would come again to them. — is Old Prince held his head higher than ever, and stepped oe briskly along on the homeward route, as if half conscious of the new and strangely important relations which the - occupants of the buggy bore to each other. — Well, Robbie, I don’t feel any different from what I did -. before, do your” asked Dora, with a comical look on her ~ rosy face. | ee - Why, no, Brightie; I didn’t expect to, did you?” — “T d’no,” replied the child, looking somewhat confused. ae “Well—yes—I thought folks who got married felt bigger and grander some way. : eee Robert laughed. es, =. “Did your he asked. ‘I guess it must be because they ae ae have on new clothes, and are fixed up so much.” oe _ “Perhaps 80,” oR ietes ee a, still looking ee “And