A Fair Fraud — page 120: what you’re looking at

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A Far Fraud 109 But since she had been staying at Crook- thorpe she had learnt otherwise. And from the hour that she had seen love in Kenneth’s eyes she had ventured to own to herself that this man alone had the power to touch her heart. It was hard to have to give him up after this! but Hester knew that she would have to do so. Like her mother, she would not have hesitated to defy the sharp-witted lawyer who had recognised and was probably prepared to denounce them as impostors—for she was no coward to throw up a winning game at the first breath of danger. It was not Edgar Naylor and the revelations he might make that would have forced her to give up her lover. If only she had not loved him! Then she would have stuck to him through thick and thin, just for the money and the position which she coveted so much; and for the freedom from harassing debts and still more harass- ing fears that would have meant so very much more to her, but she could not sacrifice the man she loved to her own ambitions—that was not possible to her! Slowly she rose at length, and walking over to the dressing-table, unlocked the morocco case where she kept her few trinkets—sham pearls and sham diamonds for the most part!—and GOMMGIOO <S (GO)