His Other Wife: A Novel — page 119: what you’re looking at

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GORDON WARREN’S PUPIL. 111! Leda was perfectly aware of Mr. Croft’s ignorance of any previous relations between herself and his partner, . and Faith’s position at Lucerne gave her ample excuse for drawing her former victim once more within her snares. Her hope of achieving this purpose was flattered into con- fidence by Warren’s ready acceptance of the position offered him as a friend of the family. Not a word had ever been exchanged between them in reference to the past; and the young man seemed utterly to ignore his previous acquaintance with her— maintaining always the courteous demeanor which his relations with her husband required, but never, by word or sign, manifesting a wish to pass the bounds of simple politeness. Yet, on occasions like the one just described, Warren would fling a barbed arrow into Leda’s soul, that she knew well had been steeped in some poisoned remembrance. , What the precise nature of his present sentiments to_ ward her were, she could not divine; but her woman’s vanity preferred to construe his frigid reserve into wounded love, or at least the rancor of disappointed passion. Nor could she bring herself to believe that her beauty’s sway over his fervid nature, whose depths she had once stirred so powerfully, was ended. | On the contrary, she fancied that his avoidance was but a sign of his internal strife with a hopeless passion. - It was now her purpose to convince him that her heart was still accessible, though her hand was not. EComicbooks: (E(e)