A Struggle for a Ring — page 385: what you’re looking at

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“7 WILL SUFFER FOR HIM.” 381 b ‘‘Once more,” continued the clear, pitiless voice, ‘‘I saw you wandering about the house after midnight—after every one else had gone to rest—then I suspected you. I have made inquiries since, and I find that twice my mothers maid has gone to your room and has found it empty after every one had believed that you, like the rest, had gone to bed. I find that twice you have been seen in the grounds at night, and each time with a gentleman; you have been observed to creep back into the house when every one else was asleep. Jask you can you deny these things? You donot speak. You donot answer. I am glad, at least, that you have the grace to remain silent. [ should not have troubled Lady Waldrove with the story of your folly, but that I had no power to dismiss you myself. I will see if it be convenient for Lady Waldrove to receive you now. Have you anything to say to me before I go?’ Nothing. The white face drooped and the white lips closed; from them came no sound! CHAPTER LVII. ‘*] WILL SUFFER FOR HIM.” Lady Gertrude quitted the room, closing the door be- hind her. She was very indignant, very angry, and very much mortified. Like the countess, she had fixed all her hopes on seeing Lord Carsdale marry Lady Ethel, and now to find that he was carrying on a low intrigue with her mother’s companion—it was too much! She had never been so mortified in her life. After that little scene in the corridor—when, opening her door, she had distinctly seen