His Other Wife: A Novel — page 98: what you’re looking at

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QO RACHEL'S COMMANDS. that the engagement was one of long standing, as Mr. ’ Croft has been for years the friend and legal adviser of the bride’s mother. The lonely condition in which Mrs. Morgan’s recent death left the young lady, reasonably accounts for the suddenness of the nuptials. The bridal pair will reside at the beautiful country seat of Lucerne, in the vicinity of this city.” Rachel read the paragraph through, though each word of it seemed to transfix her soul anew in a trance of horror. Her wasted fingers clutched the paper in a cold and rigid grasp; her gaze staid fastened on the page as if unable to stir from it, while all the life in her pale face gathered into a dull red flame that leaped up into the great black orbs, making them glare like the eyes of a wounded tigress at bay. All these weary years had she hushed her pain and buried her life in obscurity, and prayed and yearned for this man’s happiness while her own heart starved, only that she might furnish him the means to fill her place with a woman whom he could love as wildly as she had loved him. And here was her. reward | At last the demon of revenge, so long stifled by the angel of constancy, broke from its leash and possessed the woman, mind and soul. | | In the wild and fierce reaction, the hate wherewith she hated him ,was greater than the love wherewith she had loved him. (E(0) 3 Comicbooks: