A Fair Fraud — page 232: what you’re looking at

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A Fair Fraud 22] and down the room frantically. ‘Then you have destroyed your last chance with him for ever! You have been stupid enough to show him your hand, and now you may be sure that he will never repeat his offer of marriage to you. ‘I am well aware of that,’ replied Hester, sadly ; ‘but I could not help myself—I could not see my father starve.’ Purposely she said nothing to her mother about the threats against Captain Drury’s life which her father had used. She determined that to no one on earth would she speak of those murderous intentions, save only to Kenneth himself, should she ever—ever— Ah! but he never | could! What folly to dream that his love would possibly outlive all that had been done to kill it. , Meanwhile Mrs Lane had flung herself face downwards upon the bed, sobbing hysterically, and railing and reviling her daughter as the worst, the wickedest, the most cruel and un- grateful child in Christendom. And so it went on for hours. Sometimes she scolded and upbraided and cursed—some- times she wept and entreated and implored— sometimes she threatened to disown her, and never to speak to her again—but through it all Hester kept firm and brave, until, in the early dawn of the grey morning, her mother, ElOOO© oO G' Q)