Beautiful Rienzi; or, The secret vendetta — page 60: what you’re looking at

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BEAUTIFUL RIENZL 55 turned to her own destruction. Then, perhaps, she’ll be sorry for the trick she played me!” - She ceased with set teeth, and pushed me from the door; afurious, implacable foe, no more a gentle girl. [ went away without a word. I was stunned; blow after blow was descending on me; my heart was faint and sick. I went through the silent house as I should have done at first, to my father. He was pacing up and down, afrown on his face such as Thad never seen there before. ‘« Have you come home alone, then?” he asked, turning onme. ‘* White says your sister was not with you.” | I flung myself into his arms. The last straw broke the camel’s back. The terror and grief which had so long. been accumulating burst forth at last in a torrent of tears. My fatker soothed and caressed me; his brief paternal sternness vanished before my distress; he implored me to explain what was grieving me. ‘Tell me how it came that you lost sight of Isolina.” I sobbed after a while: | ‘‘T have not seen her since she was carried out of the hall insensible.” | | ‘What? Has she disappeared?” ‘‘Father, did you trust her with that madman, Beau- mont?” ‘‘T can tell you nothing about her, my child, except that I hastened out of the hall as soon as she gave way; 1 would have got round to the dressing-room sooner, where I imagined young Beaumont had taken her, but Miss Meredith, who had been acting like a possessed creature before that, and had hissed in a most derisive and unseemly manner when the accident happened, delayed me by going into something that looked very like a convulsion fit. By the time I got her dragged out with me and wrapped up, a manager came to me and said that Beaumont had just driven off with your sister—if I hastened, I could overtake them, and put her in my sleigh, as Beaumont’s was un- covered.. I hurried Miss Meredith in and dashed off, but did not overtake them. When I came to our gate out there, © a boy, who was waiting on the sidewalk, said he had been tol? to stand there and inform me that Miss Rienzi, feely quite revived, had decided to go back to the hall and tr CORNUCG OOO S (©)