A Silver Brand — page 103: what you’re looking at

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A SILVER BRAND. 05 “Come, Lina!” cried Penelope, impatiently. And Lina yielded to the nervous grasp, and was drawn away out of the cabin and into the shadow of the trees and shrubbery that lined the wide road leading up to the rocky summit. oe aeaee “Aunt Penelope, I wonder very much at yeu,”: cried Lina, angrily. “You were rude and unkind - to two friends who have been very good and gener: ous to me,” 5 ae “Don’t talk to me now, Lina, only hurry to get into the house before Theodosia discovers that you — are gone. I cannot bear her keen retorts to-day. My brain isina whirl. I am frightened!” fear “Frightened!” repeated Lina, in astonishment. Penelope Foss shuddered as she answered, tremu- — lously: | “Yes, frightened, Lina, at your danger and mine. What shall I do? Oh! what is wisest for me to do? If Lcould only see!” , “You do not think Serena or Nat can do any harm?” exclaimed Lina, indignantly. | She gave a stifled moan. “Hverything—éverybody!” she cried out, Jooking around her wildly. “Oh, girl, girl! if 1 might clasp -you.in my-arms, and fly to some. far-off isle—some desert shore!” and then the outstretched hands fell limp and nerveless. “Hven there, even there!” she murmured, despairingly, “the All-Seeing Eye would see and know.” , It was Lina’s turn to be frightened. Such deep anguish and distress might well startle and appall her inexperienced mind, “Auntie Pen, you must go to bed—you are sick, I am sure!” she stammered. “Ido not believe you know what you are saying!” “No, I do not know what lam saying—you are right, Lina. Forget whatever it was I talked about, and hurry into the house. I made Paul believe I let you out myself. Don’t you know they would bar the windows, too, if they guessed how you escaped? IThope Theodosia has not found it out, or I shall hear another tirade upon my weakness.” : Theodosia was not in the vicinity when they = comicbooks.com