A Daughter of Delilah — page 140: what you’re looking at

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ee = “THINK OF ISABEL!” 131 ‘‘And if I refuse?”’ ‘‘T’ll have you arrested, you she-devil. You know what for!’ ‘‘Hush! A woman cannot cope with aman. I will go!’’ He looked at her fiercely. ‘*None of your tricks!”’ ‘I tell you that I will go!’’ shehissed. ‘‘I will go within forty-eight hours. You shall never hear of me again. I only came to you when I was starving.”’ “You thought that the old power would bring me to your feet again,’’ he sneered. ‘‘I obtained an engagement for you, and hoped that you were satisfied. Let this poor dupe go, or I will hunt you down. You know that I am not to be fooled with again. I hate you!”’ She looked at him with a bitter smile. ““Good-day!’’ he added. ‘‘I shall be here in two day’s time. In the meantime I shall keep my eyes open!”’ He went out after casting upon her a malevolent glance, and when she heard his footsteps dying away on the stairs, she paced the room like a tragedy queen. ‘How am I to escape him?’”’ she murmured. ‘‘My Heaven, is he toruin all? No! If Gilbert did but know, he would kill me!’’ The remainder of the day was one of torture to her. A hundred plans were made and discarded, but at last came a settled determination in her eyes, and they gleamed with the fires of deadly hate. How would she be able to play her part? How could she bear the caresses of Edgar Alston? At seven o’clock he was there, breathing all the mad- ness in her ears that she had heard so often before. He Gomicboo CS (E(0)