Vashti's Fate — page 173: what you’re looking at

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Se De Owe “5 ad Eek Pte yn . wt 4 ye ata aa Ki -% ' , oe nee ; . » e —wt/ i = a - ; 3 =" Set . +. ~ << By. * 5 ~ ; “= 5 appeal. ‘‘She used to go about singing all day, and romping with that great dog. Bute, you know, has been gone several months from home. Can it be she misses him so much?” Miss Margery had some twinges of conscience in this quarter, The last time the dog had been seen she had ~ driven him fiercely out of the great hall—had even beaten him and fought him away. ‘‘Margery, can it be possible you do not mow what has so changed that poor little Lenore? What could it be but one thing ?” ‘‘She gota fright here one night when she was coming up to my room,” said Margery, turning a shade paler ; ‘““was it that ?” em ‘“No, no, no, Margery. Margery, is it possible that you do not know that she heard every word of that ill- omened warning you gave me once ?” , Margery Gresham started from her seat nearly beside herself with amazement and dismay. ‘Why did you never tell me, Leonidas?” she cried out, vehemently. ‘‘You will recollect that you were, and have been, very | unapproachable to me for some time. Besides, I never thought but that she would herself tell you.” ‘Tf I had known—if I had only-known, I would never have said to that child, Leonidas, words I never should | have said, if I had only known this—words that must have — been torture to her. Why ddn’¢ she tell me what she had heard ?” ‘Tt is your own fault, Margery. I must speak plainly, © cousin, if I speak atall. Itis your own fault. She is des- perately afraid of you; she has never had any reason to be Otherwise. She was too afraid of you to speak.”