Love at the Loom — page 117: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XV. A WIDOWED BRIDE, It is not venturing too much to say that Goldie was. a unaware of half of what she was doing that terrible oo ‘night. The knowledge of the unfaithfulness of the man she had given her heart to had not driven her oe mad, but had unquestionably thrown her into a state ; . wherein she was conscious only of the desire to rid herself of the terrible pain in her heart. She was not her own mistress in one sense, although she knew that she was doing things that were horrible _ —e es en haste she did that thing. Donald by wedding Mr. Selden, and with pen esp: Then she had confronted her recreant lover, and without knowing it, she had made him see’ into his own heart, and he had realized his loss in the very mo- “ment of discovering his true nature. _ She had driven him away with a heart no less sore ‘and battered than her own, and had then flown to the privacy of the room to which her aged husband had conducted her. She had thrown herself on a couch, and it had seemed to her that if she were not left to her own to her. Something told her that she could punish © es JOO ¢s) €O) thoughts she would surely go mad. |