His Other Wife: A Novel — page 32: what you’re looking at

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24 THE WIDOW’'S CONFESSION. ‘‘Judge now what cause I have to pronounce your partner a cruel traitor,” said Mrs. Morgan, as she finished a recital that had sent the hot, indignant blood with tumultuous force through the knightly breast of Gordon Warren. _ He had heard her through. without a comment; and now his cheek was flushed, and his eye glittered as he took the weak hand from his arm and raised it to his lips. He said, with suppressed feeling : ‘‘T were unworthy the-name of man, far less of gentle- man, did I suffer any consideration of personal interest to hinder me from giving whatever aid I can to extricating you and yours from the tissue of false appearances with which you believe yourself environed. But the matter is one of extreme delicacy, in which I must proceed with the utmost caution. Trust me implicitly, I beg of you.” ‘You must know that I have done that unasked.” ‘‘T am proud of it, madam.” — ‘‘In my turn, I beg one favor—never, under any cir- cumstances, let Leda know a breath of what has trans- pired.” ‘‘Can it be that Miss Morgan is ignorant of your pecuniary distress?” ‘“Not entirely ; yet she does not dream of the dire strait to which my affairs have come. I thought it.useless to give her pain until it no longer could be avoided.” ‘<’Your wish shall, of course, govern me, Yet I think it would be wisest.to have her know.” | + comicbooks.co