This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII. THE PLOT DEEPENS. I Am minded now of a verse of Scripture which was a favorite of Mistress Williams, viz.: -- " Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh with the morning." For on the morrow, as I rose heavily and went down to the court-yard with eyes red with weeping, there waited ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII. THE PLOT DEEPENS. I Am minded now of a verse of Scripture which was a favorite of Mistress Williams, viz.: -- " Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh with the morning." For on the morrow, as I rose heavily and went down to the court-yard with eyes red with weeping, there waited for me a great and joyful surprise. For there standing by the great Luxembourg rose-bush stood the very young woman who had given me so much pain the night before, and Madame la Marquise, who stood beside her, holding her hand, called to me, saying: "Come, my dear Submit; I have here a companion for you, whom you needs must love." "Mademoiselle Hortense Hertel, the youngest sister of Sieur Hertel de Rouville. whom you have such sad cause to know," and the young girl, holding out her hands in the most engaging manner, exclaimed: "My brother has unwillingly wrought you much grief; you must let me willingly make what reparation Lean." And I, thinking only of Hertel de Chamblee, who was also her brother, cried out that I had received naught but kindness from her race, and, far from having anything to forgive, had much for which to be grateful. Then Hortense, pulling me into the light, asked suddenly if my name were Submit Dare, and, when she knew that this was true, was like to smother me with kisses. "Ah!" said she, "it is of you that my brother De Chamblee has raved in his delirium; have you not heard how for several months he has lain ill with a fever, the effect of his wound and the hardships of the march, so that word even went forth that he was dead." When I heard this, I reproached myself for the many unkind thoughts I had entertained concerning him, and still more so as Hortense told me that he was hardly recovered, and that, though he...
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