The Illegal Marriage — page 110: what you’re looking at

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102 THE ILLEGAL MARRIAGE have promised him and cannot break my word at once; let me——” “You won’t, then? That’s what you mean, is it? Would you rather go to your grave?” He pulled her rudely to the bedside, and, reaching his hand under the pillow, drew out a long carving’ knife. Raising it-menacingly, he held it above her head. “Would you kill me, father?” she implored, as she fell upon her knees at his feet; “would you kill your own daughter?” “Kill you! Yes, ten times over rather than see you the wife of that man.” Again he raised the knife as if to strike. “Help! oh, Heaven help me!” she cried, feebly, as she fell unconscious on the floor. How long she remained there insensible Miss Morgan never knew. When she again opened her eyes they fell upon a sight that nearly froze her soul with horror. Swaying to and fro beside the bed stood her father, swinging his arms wildly about, and raving incoherently. Huis breast was covered with bloody wounds. Blood was fast dripping from him, and fell upon the floor in drops; the window was broken, and the chairs thrown about in confusion, as if a struggle nad taken place within the room. Within her reach lay the bloody knife, and quickly seizing it, she gave shriek after shriek, as she rose and pushed her father down upon the bed. He fell heavily across it, and she was exerting her feeble strength to the utmost in trying to raise his feet, when Ogletree and the negroes broke in the door, In the excitement of the moment, Cecy had not remembered that the door was bolted, She still comicbooks.com — ” } gg ss Pad a — s "Ss ” =