Vashti's Fate — page 266: what you’re looking at

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ITANTALIZATION,. 26% suffered him to attend her to her carriage door, but put him back when he would have entered, saying, as she gave — him her hand: “T leave town to-morrow for Everleigh. You may write me, but I will not promise to answer very promptly. Good-by.” | Thorpe bit his lip fiercely as the carriage drove off, and paced two hours in the stormy street, unconscious of wind or snow, so much more stormy was the conflict within him. Vashti did not leave town the next day, nor the next. Frank was very ill with a lung fever, and continued in a precarious state several weeks. She staid within doors, seeing no one but the household and the physician, and enduring herself as best she might. If Professor Thorpe expected a summons to see his wayward and eccentric wife, he was disappointed ; and doubtless he did, for not a day passed that he did not leave at the door what pretended to be a note, but was very voluminous indeed for such a document. “You did not forbid me to write,” he wrote; ‘‘and if you did, I should not obey you.” As soon as Frank was pronounced out of danger, and was getting about again, Vashti announced her desire to proceed home to Everleigh. Frank shuddered at the bare thought, but was content to be left. ‘‘] think when I get a little stronger,” he said, ‘‘III sell off all these things here, and make a trip to England, — France, or anywhere away from Everleigh. Ugh! I can’t endure the place.” Vashti had quite as great an aversion’ to Everleigh, but what might serve Frank avery good purpose in his pro- Eomicboo (E(o) mi <5)