Thrice Wedded, but Only Once a Wife — page 209: what you’re looking at

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900 p THRICE WEDDED. here who have, also, something against this peace-destroying wretch; and when they have settled with him we will leave _ this place for more agreeable quarters. He turned away, as he spoke, to see the Italians before mentioned, while the squire, with an uneasy, and anxious expression upon his yellow face, remained waiting and watching, not without cause, for further painful develop- ments. CHAPTER XXXVI. UNBROKEN FAITH. We left poor Enid Chichester in a faint in the arm- chair, into which she had fallen on discovering who the bridegroom was; and there she had remained unnoticed and uncared for until the excitement had somewhat subsided -—until every smuggler was firmly bound and put under close and watchful guard. Then some of her fair sisters had discovered her and im- mediately set about her restoration. For a long time the efforts of her friends were unsuccessful, but, at last, with a heavy sigh, she opened her eyes and gazed wonderingly around her. Soon she remembered where she was—why she was there, and what had happened—that he—he who had promised to devote himself to the work of liberating her—he upon whom she had placed her whole dependence, her whole faith and trust, was married to another; worse than that! was the wretch who had heartlessly forced the bonds of wedlock upon ~ an unwilling bride; and with a moan of pain shecovered her beautiful face with her hands. ‘What is it, Enid—what made you faint?” gently asked one of her friends. _ She started as if suddenly smitten with a rod, at the ques- tion. Disagreeable as the fact might be, she realized that ~her heart had gone out to this same sinful and erring man, with all its freshness and wealth of affection; in plain wor ds, that she loved him, in spite of the hideous and glaring -eolors in which he now'stood revealed. But she would die before she would ever let any one sus- pect the truth. So, setting her little teeth firmly together, and tossing her head Ta she said, in - reply to the qeery of her friend: —— GEomireboo ‘S co