Richard Forrest, Bachelor — page 213: what you’re looking at

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204 “tf CANNOT BE YOUR JUDGE.” ‘She was going out in the world with neither money nor friends to assist her. ‘‘Well, I suppose despair drove the woman distracted, ”’ she resumed, ‘‘for she changed completely from that time. She lost faith in heaven itself. Naturally, she strove to find the girl, and failing in that, she determined to locate herself as near as possible to the man whose baseness had driven all the joy and pleasure out of two lives. In this chance favored her, and she entered his very household. You will wonder what her motive for doing this was. I honestly assure you I cannot say. Perhaps she wished to feel that he was in her power, in a certain measure; possi- bly it was because she thirsted for information of the girl which she thought she might obtain through him in some way. ‘On revient toujours a ses premiers amours,’ and there was a bare chance that he might know where she had fled to, after all. But she learned nothing, although she watched and spied upon him, like a detective. It soon transpired that he knew as little about her as she did, and that he never experienced a remorseful moment. He was seemingly perfectly happy, always; completely wrapped up in the woman he had married. She, I will acknowledge, was as Sweet and beautiful as any woman could be, and well deserving of any man’s devotion, so I do not wonder that he was passionately fond of her. But never did he cast even so much as a regret—a thought, apparently, toward the young creature who had trusted him and had had every right to occupy the position now filled by an- other.”’ ; Dick walked up and down the room in agitation. He could not help anticipating what her next words would be. Gomichbooksrcom