His Other Wife: A Novel — page 298: what you’re looking at

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290 FAITH’S DELIVERANCE. opportunity of communicating with her guardian, who would, of course, come or send for her at once. Meantime she remained a guest in the beautiful home of these English people, who resided upon some salu- brious heights overlooking the city of Georgetown. Mr. Godfrey was a wealthy merchant, who had just returned with his family from a visit to their relatives in England. After hearing from Faith just how she was placed to- ward the family at Lucerne, and that her mother was not there, the merchant advised her to remain under his care until she was advised of her guardian’s wishes in regard to her return, rather than risk taking the voyage alone, and before she had recovered from the fatigues and anxieties of her recent eventful sojourn on the sea. Both Mr. Godfrey and his wife discerned in the pale, anxious face of the girl that she had sustained a severe ordeal, from which she must recover before taxing her strength further. For the present we leave her with them. Eomicbooks.co