I Forbid the Banns! — page 348: what you’re looking at

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338 “7 FORBID THE BANNS!” could see. But was there not a certain anxious, expectant look in her face ? What did that look mean? Was she counting the moments till someone should arrive? The Green Scandinavian Band was heard in the distance. It was performing a selection from ‘‘ Lucrezia Borgia,” and had just reached the charming bolero, “ Il segreto per esser felice:’” He listened, and watched, and laughed. ‘Tl segreto per esser felice.” Had he found it? Was he any nearer the discovery than he had been six monthsago? Was thesecret to be attained | by watching the girl who had laid down for his sake all that woman holds dear? He knew in the depths of his heart that she was faithful to him; but it is not into the depths of his own heart that a man looks when the madness of jealousy seizes hold upon him. It is not even into the depths of his own reason. If Othello had taken a pencil anda slate and had made a small calculation, he would have found out, if he possessed the rudiments of mathematics, that it was impossible that Des- demona could have been unfaithful to him. Julian Charlton could not apply the most ordinary reason- ing to his own case in regard to Bertha. ‘That whisper was stillinhis ear: ‘She is bound to you by no tie that may not be severed in a moment.” - Several men approached her. Most of them were well known in the world. He could see that, all the time she was talking with them, the same unsatisfied look was on her face. Was she not watching and waiting for someone who had not yet come to her side? After a few minutes he saw her moving out of the room with her hand on the arm of a distinguished peer who was the head of Lord Ashenthorpe’s department. (EONMICGLYOVOlKS (EC)