The Widowed Bride — page 132: what you’re looking at

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THE WIDOWED BRIDE. 193 tailed, circumstantially, the story she had that evening lis- tened to. “T thought it would interest you, dear Rena,” she added, ‘for all such family histories have ansinterest of their own. And I distinctly — remember—do not you?—the inscription in the beautiful old church by the wayside where we stopped with poor grandpapa, the night he died, when we read the names of ‘Allegra and Katherine, twin daugh- ters of Lord Glenhampton,’ and marveled, in our childish fashion, over the beauty of the sculptured marble angels. We did not dream then how curiously we should be brought into association with those | names again, I through the memory of very kind friends here, and you through the presence of the very scenes. where poor little Allegra and Katherine were born and died. “Dear Rena, tell me truly whether you are happy there, among the erandeurs of Glenhampton Castle? Sometimes I think you would have been better off to have taken the situation of governess some- where, and never come in contact with people and things that cannot always be within your reach; but you were ever more ambitious than poor little I, and I must not venture to judge for you. Only I wish I could tell you how very, very happy I am, and how kind they all are to me, ALLIE,” (ele) Eomicbooks