The Widowed Bride — page 189: what you’re looking at

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180 THE WIDOWED BRIDE. and is terribly cast down and apologetic about it. I sup- pose I ought to have scolded him, but I only told him to be sure if never occurred again.” Lady Glenhampton took the letter mechanically from her daughter’s hand and broke the seal, glancing over its con- tents in a dreamy, absent way, which instantly changed to breathless surprise and dismay. “What is it, mamma?” cried Blanche, who was watching her mother’s face. Tell me, mamma, is papa ill?” “No,” Lady Glenhampton wailed; ‘it is from Ernest, my only boy—the one in whom all my hopes were bound up —to tell me that he is married.” O com 900KsS.co A 1! j ¥ ( , Te ;