Stella Rosevelt — page 394: what you’re looking at

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388 REHEARSING THE PAST. him there, looking so fondly déwn into her eyes, and calling her his darling in those dear, familiar tones. ‘¢ Archie—Archie !” she murmured, with a sob, ‘‘I know all about it—you were never a traitor or a coward. I know you never deceived me, and I alone am guilty of a great wrong to you.” _- With a low cry of joy he gathered her close in his arms, and laid’ her shining head upon his breast, calling her by every endearing name with which his heart was filled. ‘You know all about it, my love? Who has told you?” he asked, surprised. ‘Just one little sentence in a newspaper, which told me also that, when at the very moment I found you had been true, my life was to be a blank as long as I should live,” Star said, with unsteady voice and quivering lips. ‘‘I read,” she added ‘‘the notice of your marriage with Miss Richards in the Cheshire Gazette. These two names, Archibald Sherbrooke and Lord Carrol were printed there, and told me the whole story. I knew then fow I had been deceived. But I cannot under- stand.” She broke off suddenly, and drew herself away from him shivering and sick at heart again. Surely that notice would never have been printed if he was not married, and she had no right to be thus in the arms of another woman’s husband. She knew that he neither loved nor respected Josephine from the way he had addressed her; he called her Miss Richards, too, but it was a puzzle that she could not com- prehend. Lord Carrol read her thoughts, and saw by her white face how she was suffering, and he said, with infinite tenderness : ‘My love, it was all a farce, a mock marriage planned bya wild and thoughtless girl, while I was chosen as one of the Gomichbooks (Eo)