A Final Triumph; or, A Lady Bachelor — page 107: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

SLIGHTS. A shadow settled on the beautiful face of Eloise. ** Why not, my dear child?’’ ‘¢ There is a reason why I can not.” ** Have you a secret, my child?’’ ** Yes, auntie; I have a secret. ”’ ** And you have kept it from me?’’ ‘‘T have.” | ** Why not reveal it?’ . ‘* Your words compel me to reveal it.”’ 105: The aunt gazed at her niece with a puzzled expression upon her face. ‘There followed a moment’s silence, and then Eloise said: ‘* George has been faithful to his love; I can not do less.”” The perplexed look on the aunt’s face became intensified: ** Has George ever written to you?’’ 66 No. 33 **'Then how do you know he has been faithful to his love?’’ ** 1 know it.’ ** Tell me how you know it, my child. ’’ ** He has lived a solitary life; he goes about his duties ‘yn a mechanical sort of way. Something for eight years as preyed upon his mind. Auntie, it was not a sordid motive that led George to treat me as he did; it must have been something terrible that rose between us. Had he failed to be faithful to his love, your advice would be proper. I would resolutely have striven to treat the past as a dream; but no, the chasm that divides us may never be bridged over, and we two must walk on either side of it until death shall bring forgetfulness or the explanation. com .OO <S) (EO) . > : id ae OO oie oe) . ..