A Heart's Bitterness — page 190: what you’re looking at

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182 A HEART’S BITTERNESS. made large discount on his speeches, but happily no one heard them but Kate, and she was too wise to speak, or even look any condemnation.” ««Kidna told you?” faltered Violet.” ‘Yes, she did. Jove! It is the best news I’ve heard for a year. We'll go back to London to-day, appear in public for a few times, or two or three weeks, and then we had better go down to the Towers. ‘That will be the best place for you, Violet. You can take some quiet friends along with you—you won’t object to Miss Ambrose this year, I suppose?” | ‘‘Indeed no, Norman. I am so ashamed I ever was so suly. She is the dearest, loveliest, best. I am never so happy as when I am with her.” “That's what I think,” groaned the unhappy man to himself; and, giving Violet his hand, he led her to the breakfast-table. They were alone. Dame Magery had gone to the little paddock where her pet cow was grazing. Kate was butter- ing toast in the kitchen. Lord Leigh was wholly intent on serving an omelette placed before him, when a swift step crossed the room, and some one noisily dropped into a chair opposite the earl. Leigh looked up, and saw before him, only the table be- tween, the face which last he had seen framed against the red sunset in the open casement of ‘‘ The Karl’s Folly”—the face over which he thought the waters of the Black Pool had closed forever—the face that had haunted him as his victim, but now leered at him as his enemy. In his intense amazement he leaped to his feet, but Vio- let flung herself in his arms, crying: ‘“‘Norman! Save me from that terrible man!” At the same instant Dame Magery rushed in. ~ “See my head!” began the man, jerking off his cap; but Dame Magery checked him by grasping his arm, saying: ‘*Out on you! Can I never keep you where you belong?” and led him away unresisting. ‘* There, there, child—no one will hurt you,” said Leigh, releasing himself from Violet’s clasp. <‘‘Some half-wit of the neighborhood. You will not be harmed.” “But I saw him before! I was lying alone; he came in and said he would kill me! Magery tried to make me ~ think I had been dreaming. She said no one was here.” (e(0) —comicbooks