In Sight of St. Paul's — page 236: what you’re looking at

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ATONEMENT. week 231 strength and courage she knew she would need in the forthcoming interview. ‘‘Bring him here!?’ In another moment the wronged husband and the erring wife were face to face. Burnsides came close to the couch, and Cynthia raised herself upon her elbow. For a moment they looked fixedly at each other. The man’s gaze, which at first had been stern and hard, gradually relaxed. Then Cynthia spoke. ‘It was kind of you to come,’’ she murmured. ‘You sent for me,’’ replied Burnsides, in a hol- low voice. ‘‘It was my duty.”’ Cynthia threw her head back upon the cushions and laughed hysterically. She was not so strong, - either mentally or physically, as she had been. ‘“Ha! ha! ha! Do we always do our duty, we two ?”’ Burnsides came a step nearer. ‘The change in his wife affected him powerfully. He half stretched forth his arms, but his dry lips and parched tongue refused him utterance. Gradually the Panther’s unnatural merriment died away. ‘‘Hlow were you saved that dreadful night?’’ she — asked. f Gomicbhbooks:¢o m