His Other Wife: A Novel — page 124: what you’re looking at

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i16 GORDON WARREN'S PUPIL. ‘He must be very happy to laugh like that,” she thought. ©“ And happiness, under existing circumstances, was the very last condition that she expected or desired for Gordon Warren. She felt bitterly angered against him for being able to laugh, and enraged with Faith for provoking it. a ‘‘What can he see to amuse him in that silly gosling of a girl?” she said, under her breath. After a few moments she went to her chamber 1 to dress for dinner. Some people from the city were expected to pass the evening at Lucerne. An hour later Warren and Faith came up from the lake, talking as gayly as on their way thither. On re- entering the house, Warren stopped in the dark library to light a cigar, while Faith went on up stairs to make her toilet. Standing at the window on the piazza, Warren perceived a tall, black figure glide out from the lime walk by which he had just returned. This person hurried along the edge of the open lawn, and entered the garden by the side way that approached the house obliquely, and wound under the library windows. Shifting his stand to a side window, Warren watched the stealthily moving figure till it passed just beneath him ; he saw that it was the eccentric house- keeper, Mrs. Foster. ™~" Comicbooks.¢o ¢