His Other Wife: A Novel — page 65: what you’re looking at

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‘AMY'S DISCOVERIES. — 57 of the old nurse, nor dreamed of, the chaos which was whirling her ignorant, slavish old brain to madness. She felt her heart bursting with a frightful conviction which she knew she dared_not utter at the peril of her own life. Yet how to keep that secret in her breast and live, seemed at this moment a problem that she had need to refer to the ‘‘Lord in Hebben.” While she lay prone and convulsed with wild moans and sobs, she felt her master’s hand close firmly, even harshly, on one of her arms, and his voice seemed to come hissing through clenched teeth to her ear. He said, in a low, but distinct tone: ‘‘ Stop this noise instantly ; this is no place for your loud lamentation |” With a movement of half-savage grief, the old slave sprang up, and, wrenching herself free of the cold, reso- lute hand, she exclaimed, fiercely: i ‘* Ain't I bin help fetch de chile into de worl’, an’ you ‘spec’ me no feel grief w’en she tek out of it tke dis?” A flash as.of sparks seemed to fly from Mathew Croft's blazing eyes. He felt the desire to seize and throttle the faithful old creature, whose genuine suffering seemed to accuse his own crocodile tears. _ But, controlling himself, he turned. away from her, lest he might be betrayed into some act-which would create surprise or mistrust in the by- standers. | Mrs. Rowe, the landlady, succeeded in quieting Maum Amy’s tempestuous lamentations by requiring her services - Eomicbooks*Eo 3