Beadle's Dime Novels No. 37: Godbold, the Spy — page 96: what you’re looking at

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94 GIDEON GODBOLD. heart. The requital of her love and constancy is mure t) a half in sorrow.” ; ) . After pronouncing these words, he fgll upon the couch a complete exhaustion, and there remained until he was abo- lutely tortured to sleep by the weight of his agonies. » OHAPTER xvtt. IsaBELLE and Alice had spent the interval of Horac 4 absence in happiness, though they awaited his return wi ) eagerness. They saw but little of General Arnold at Beverley, so absorbed was he in his duties. Once or twice he had joined them for an instant in the garden; but after supply- ‘ing them with the names of one or two distant peaks, and calling their attention to other prominent objects, he quitted them, regretting that his military obligations afforded him so little leisure to enjoy their society. On both these occasions, Alice was greatly tempted to speak of André, to whom she was most desirous of communicating her presence at Beverley ; but Isabelle, remembering the terror caused by her own temerity, strictly forbade the subject, and moved about with Alice, as a censor upon her language, so the matter remained unmentioned. 7 | Only two days had now to elapse before the return of Horace, and the first of these was to be devoted to an excur- sion upon the river. Isabelle and Alice had risen early to forward some preparations, when, looking from their window, they perceived at a distance an oflicer riding toward Beverley. Both exclaimed, simultaneously : 2 oy “Tt is Horace.” “2 | And Alice, with considerate courtesy, Teceded from the door nearest which she stood, that Isabelle might be the first “But you are two days earlier than epected,” remarked Conmcloooks.comnn q