The Illegal Marriage — page 47: what you’re looking at

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all = THE ILLEGAL MARRIAGE, | 39 CHAPTER III, THE MEETING WITH ALFRED GUERRY. For some months after the departure of her friends, Miss Morgan was much alone, and time tegan to drag heavily upon her. She longed for companionship, for sympathy, for love. > Stannard seldom came to the castle now, and since that evening they had never been alone to- gether. This confirmed Cecy’s opinion of him, and with the usual contradictory character of woman, she now longed to gain his confidence so that she could sympathize with him, and console him in the absence of the woman he loved. Cecy wished to talk of her. She wished to speak of her to him; to show him that she could do so calmly and cheerfully; to ask him if she were beautiful and good. “She must be,” Cecy said to herself, as she re- volved these things in her mind; “I know she must be both to have won his love. How I should like to see her.” The castle seemed dreary enough to her now, and to while away the time, she made frequent visits to Macon, often bringing back some friends to spend a few days with her. On one of these visits she saw Alfred Guerry—son of the Echaconnee preacher—who, having gradu- ated in law, had just put out his sign in Macon. Cecy had never heard the story of her father’s dis- appointment, nor had he ever mentioned the Guerrys in her presence. Though somewhat ac- Eomicboo “S (Ele)